{"id":8980,"date":"2011-01-27T15:42:54","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T23:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=8980"},"modified":"2011-01-27T15:42:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T23:42:54","slug":"thursday-iran-talking-points-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/27\/thursday-iran-talking-points-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Iran Talking Points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lobelog.com\/\">LobeLog<\/a>: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for January 26th, 2011:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/print\/258068\">National Review Online<\/a><\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/rightweb.irc-online.org\/profile\/Foundation_for_Defense_of_Democracies\">Foundation for Defense of Democracies<\/a> President <a href=\"http:\/\/rightweb.irc-online.org\/profile\/May_Clifford\">Clifford May<\/a> writes about the controversy surrounding a scheduled screening of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightweb.irc-online.org\/profile\/Clarion_Fund\">Clarion Fund<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s film, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lobelog.com\/iranium-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-military-option\/\">Iranium<\/a>,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which was postponed after \u00e2\u20ac\u0153suspicious letters\u00e2\u20ac\u009d were received and the Iranian embassy complained. May points out that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worth recalling that the Islamic Republic has a long history of attempting to enforce its will extraterritorially.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d On Western engagement with Iran, May, who is interviewed in the film, observes, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153diplomacy, outreach, engagement, and carefully crafted speeches showing respect and apologizing for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153grievances\u00e2\u20ac\u009d will have limited utility.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He concludes, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No sensible, rational person can watch this film, hear this evidence, and fail to come to the conclusion that the fanatics who rule Iran must be prevented from acquiring nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/blogs\/index.php\/alana-goodman\/388189\">Commentary<\/a><\/em>: Alana Goodman blogs on <em>Commentary<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Contentions blog that, according to the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5g24PklvrgnE7HmfPis3uomNU_PYg?docId=CNG.32ed027d9136847068e1420850fb9209.fe1\">Times of London<\/a><\/em>, Iranian Press TV has had its British bank account frozen. Goodman concludes her post, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The fake news station not only devotes itself to publishing constant anti-American and anti-Israel propaganda; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also issued news reports <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.presstv.ir\/detail\/56287.html\">denying <\/a>the Holocaust and claiming that the Mossad <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.presstv.ir\/detail\/87982.html\">helped commit<\/a> the 9\/11 attacks. At the very least, the government should require the station to provide a content warning informing viewers that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s funded entirely by the Iranian government.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for January 26th, 2011: National Review Online: Foundation for Defense of Democracies President Clifford May writes about the controversy surrounding a scheduled screening of the Clarion Fund\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s film, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Iranium,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which was postponed after \u00e2\u20ac\u0153suspicious letters\u00e2\u20ac\u009d were received and the Iranian embassy complained. May points out that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8981,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8980\/revisions\/8981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8980"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}