{"id":9278,"date":"2011-02-12T06:19:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T14:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=9278"},"modified":"2011-02-15T11:51:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T19:51:01","slug":"monday-iran-talking-points-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/12\/monday-iran-talking-points-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Iran Talking Points"},"content":{"rendered":"

from LobeLog<\/a>: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 14th, 2011:<\/em><\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a><\/em>: On her \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Right Turn\u00e2\u20ac\u009d blog, Jennifer Rubin<\/a> asks \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Will Obama now reverse course on Iran?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We should re-evaluate the ongoing, useless talks with the Iranian regime on its nuclear weapons program, which have the effect of legitimizing the regime and depressing the opposition,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Rubin. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Instead, in international bodies and with allies we should pursue a full court press to isolate the Iranian regime and highlight its dismal human rights record.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The neoconservative Foreign Policy Initiative<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Jamie Fly<\/a> tells Rubin \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If the administration is serious about regime change, it is going to have to give up its hopes of a negotiated solution to Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nuclear weapons program.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Commentary<\/a><\/em>: Abe Greenwald writes about the reports on protests in Tehran and the house arrest of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Given the regional political temperature, the Iranian regime\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s historical inclination to absolute security, and the new suspicion that Washington is content to be a witness to atrocity, there could be a perfect paranoid storm brewing in the minds of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Amadinejad.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em>: Melik Kaylan opines on Iranian official\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decision to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153outlaw Valentines Day\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and observes, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The state, for its part, continues to respond with a Whack-a-Mole approach to any social ripple not dreamt of in its philosophy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He goes on, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153[W]ith mosque and state firmly conjoined, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no stray detail of daily life so arcane that the scriptures can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be mobilized to rein it in.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em>: The Journal<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s editorial board writes, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The hard men of Tehran are now seeking to tap into Egypt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s revolutionary fervor, hailing Hosni Mubarak\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s downfall as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a great victory,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d but acknowledge that the Iranian government is concerned about the upsurge of pro-Democracy movements in the region\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Clearly the mullahs are nervous about contagion,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d they conclude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 14th, 2011: The Washington Post: On her \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Right Turn\u00e2\u20ac\u009d blog, Jennifer Rubin asks \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Will Obama now reverse course on Iran?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We should re-evaluate the ongoing, useless talks with the Iranian regime on its nuclear weapons program, which have the effect of legitimizing the regime […]<\/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-9278","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\/9278","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=9278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9281,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9278\/revisions\/9281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9278"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}