{"id":15325,"date":"2013-11-27T13:29:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T18:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=15325"},"modified":"2013-11-27T13:29:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T18:29:56","slug":"without-reagans-treason-iran-would-not-be-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/11\/27\/without-reagans-treason-iran-would-not-be-a-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Without Reagan’s Treason, Iran Would Not Be a Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Truthout<\/em> has the article Without Reagan’s Treason, Iran Would Not Be a Problem<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Carter was confident that with Bani-Sadr’s help, he could end the embarrassing hostage crisis that had been a thorn in his political side ever since it began in November of 1979.
But Carter underestimated the lengths his opponent in the 1980 Presidential election, California Governor Ronald Reagan, would go to screw him over.<\/p>\n

Behind Carter’s back, the Reagan campaign worked out a deal<\/strong><\/a> with the leader of Iran’s radical faction – Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini – to keep the hostages in captivity until after the 1980 Presidential election.<\/p>\n

This was nothing short of treason. The Reagan campaign’s secret negotiations with Khomeini – the so-called “October Surprise” – sabotaged Carter and Bani-Sadr’s attempts to free the hostages. And as Bani-Sadr told The Christian Science Monitor in March<\/strong><\/a> of this year, they most certainly “tipped the results of the [1980] election in Reagan’s favor.”<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, Iran released the hostages on January 20, 1981, at the exact moment Ronald Reagan was sworn into office.<\/p>\n

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A long-term Iranian nuclear deal would be a once in a generation chance for the United States to rethink its foreign policy. President Obama should go for it. But he should watch his back. Because if history tells us anything, it’s that Republicans are more than willing to betray their country for a little short-term political gain.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I am hoping that forewarned is forearmed. If we can make abundantly clear that we are aware of the back-stabbing that is being planned, maybe we  can scare off the perpetrators or at least foil they plots if they aren’t scared off.  Surely the NSA knows what is being planned.  If we can’t at least get some benefit from giving up our privacy, then why did we give it up in the first place?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Truthout has the article Without Reagan’s Treason, Iran Would Not Be a Problem. Carter was confident that with Bani-Sadr’s help, he could end the embarrassing hostage crisis that had been a thorn in his political side ever since it began in November of 1979.But Carter underestimated the lengths his opponent in the 1980 Presidential election, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15326,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15325\/revisions\/15326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}