{"id":9204,"date":"2011-02-10T11:08:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T19:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=9204"},"modified":"2011-02-10T11:08:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T19:08:51","slug":"thursday-iran-talking-points-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/10\/thursday-iran-talking-points-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Iran Talking Points"},"content":{"rendered":"

from LobeLog<\/a>: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 10th, 2011:<\/em><\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a><\/em>: Former Israeli ambassador Sallai Meridor opines on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What Israel fears in Egypt.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He observes, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Within every revolution are some who hope to use democratic processes to establish oppressive regimes. This was, to a large extent, what triumphed in Iran in 1979 and what happened in Gaza only five years ago.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He notes, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The implications for the region could be massive,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and asks, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s western neighbor turns hostile, where would that leave our eastern neighbor, Jordan? Would it remain at peace with us? What would be the impact on other pro-American regimes? How many weeks, or days, would the new alignment of interests between Israel and most Arab regimes last against an aggressive and nuclear-armed Iran?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Meridor goes on to suggest that American pressure on Israel to allow Palestinians democratic rights led to a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u2122democratic\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 take over of the Palestinian Authority by Hamas terrorists.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

The Jerusalem Post<\/a><\/em>: Panelists at the Israeli Herzliya Conference discussed what strategies could be employed to pressure Iran to give up its nuclear program. Mehdi Khalaji, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy<\/a>, called for the West to help provide technology and media outlets for Iranians to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153connect with each other.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Iranian public needs to know they are being cared for beyond the nuclear arena,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies<\/a>, called for tighter sanctions and said Israel must not do any business with Iran: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153[Israel] needs to be more Catholic than the pope,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 10th, 2011: The Washington Post: Former Israeli ambassador Sallai Meridor opines on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What Israel fears in Egypt.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He observes, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Within every revolution are some who hope to use democratic processes to establish oppressive regimes. This was, to a large extent, what triumphed in Iran […]<\/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-9204","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\/9204","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=9204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9205,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9204\/revisions\/9205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9204"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}