{"id":9369,"date":"2011-02-25T04:38:35","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T12:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=9369"},"modified":"2011-02-28T14:37:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T22:37:15","slug":"friday-iran-talking-points-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/25\/friday-iran-talking-points-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday 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 February 25th, 2011:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/underreported-news-venezuela-and-iran-alliance_552501.html?nopager=1\">The Weekly Standard<\/a><\/em>: Jaime Daremblum, a senior fellow at the <a href=\"http:\/\/rightweb.irc-online.org\/profile\/Hudson_Institute\">Hudson Institute<\/a>, blogs on the \u201cunderreported news\u201d that the U.S. government is investigating \u201cwhether Venezuela recently defied American sanctions by sending gasoline to the Islamic Republic.\u201d \u201c\u2018Hugo Ch\u00e1vez and PDVSA are actively helping Iran bypass both U.S. and international sanctions in its pursuit of nuclear weapons,\u2019 said Rep. Connie Mack (R-FL). Over the past several years, Ch\u00e1vez has effectively turned his country into an Iranian satellite,\u201d writes Daremblum. He ominously concludes that the Obama administration needs to \u201cpromulgate a coherent, robust strategy for addressing the Ch\u00e1vez threat and repelling Iranian influence in the region (which continues to grow).\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/feb\/24\/the-death-of-linkage\/print\/\">The Washington Times<\/a><\/em>: Israel\u2019s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Danny Ayalon, writes in the <em>Washington Times<\/em> that the last few weeks have thoroughly dis-proven the importance of \u201clinkage\u201d\u2014the concept accepted by both the Obama administration and the U.S. military\u2019s top brass that resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would help further U.S. strategic interests in the Middle East. \u201cThe WikiLeaks revelations proved that among Arab decision makers and policy-shapers, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was fairly low on the list of urgent priorities in the region,\u201d writes Ayalon. He argues that instability in the region is due to food insecurity, rising desertification, and vanishing water resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 25th, 2011: The Weekly Standard: Jaime Daremblum, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, blogs on the \u201cunderreported news\u201d that the U.S. government is investigating \u201cwhether Venezuela recently defied American sanctions by sending gasoline to the Islamic Republic.\u201d \u201c\u2018Hugo Ch\u00e1vez and PDVSA are actively [&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-9369","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\/9369","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=9369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9374,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9369\/revisions\/9374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9369"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}