{"id":9375,"date":"2011-02-28T14:40:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T22:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=9375"},"modified":"2011-02-28T14:53:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T22:53:51","slug":"friday-iran-talking-points-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/28\/friday-iran-talking-points-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday 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 28th, 2011:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/right-turn\/2011\/02\/dennis_ross_disappoints_j_stre.html?wprss=right-turn\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/rightweb.irc-online.org\/profile\/rubin_jennifer\">Jennifer Rubin<\/a> blogs that White House Middle East Adviser (and <em>Middle East Quarterly<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lobelog.com\/dennis-ross-sits-on-board-for-daniel-pipess-journal\/\">board member<\/a>) <a href=\"http:\/\/rightweb.irc-online.org\/profile\/Ross_Dennis\">Dennis Ross<\/a>\u2019s appearance at the J Street conference today \u201cwas an odd assignment, given that J Street, in concert with the pro-Iranian-regime NIAC had conspired to try to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/2009\/11\/13\/more-niac\/\">prevent his appointment<\/a>.\u201d She observes, \u201cThe applause greeting him was slight, almost imperceptible.\u201d (I attended Ross\u2019s speech and remember Ross receiving a polite reception from the crowd.) She adds, \u201con Iran\u2019s nuclear program, he gave the Obama-approved squishy line, saying we are determined to try to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2011\/02\/27\/mccain_lieberman_conrad_scott_and_malloy_on_state_of_the_union_109055.html\">RealClearPolitics<\/a><\/em>: Hawkish senators <a href=\"http:\/\/rightweb.irc-online.org\/profile\/McCain_John\">John McCain<\/a> (R-AZ) and <a href=\"http:\/\/rightweb.irc-online.org\/profile\/Lieberman_Joe\">Joe Lieberman<\/a> (I-CT) on RealClearPolitics\u2019s State of the Union blog. \u201cThe president should reverse the terrible decision he made in 2009 to not support the demonstrators in Tehran,\u201d said McCain, in response to a question about the Obama administration holding off criticism of Libya out of concern that Americans there might be taken hostage. \u201cStand up for democracy in Iran and tell those people that we are with them,\u201d he continued, \u201cAnd that should be true not only throughout the Arab countries but as far as China and other parts of the world as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 28th, 2011: The Washington Post: Jennifer Rubin blogs that White House Middle East Adviser (and Middle East Quarterly board member) Dennis Ross\u2019s appearance at the J Street conference today \u201cwas an odd assignment, given that J Street, in concert with the pro-Iranian-regime NIAC had [&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-9375","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\/9375","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=9375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9379,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9375\/revisions\/9379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9375"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}