{"id":20327,"date":"2015-04-11T21:32:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T01:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=20327"},"modified":"2015-04-11T21:32:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T01:32:54","slug":"iran-what-did-khamenei-really-say-about-the-lausanne-agreement-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/04\/11\/iran-what-did-khamenei-really-say-about-the-lausanne-agreement-and-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: What did Khamenei really say about the Lausanne Agreement, and Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Informed Comment<\/em> has the article<a title=\"Informed Comment article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2015\/04\/khamenei-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Iran: What did Khamenei really say about the Lausanne Agreement, and Why?<\/a> by Juan Cole.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hard liners are jumping up and down mad about what Rouhani &amp; Zarif are alleged to have given away to the West, and my suspicion is that Khamenei\u2019s demand for immediate end of sanctions is a way of tossing them a bone for the moment. If you read the whole speech he comes back and is still supportive of the process at the end, saying he is not for or against the deal since there really is no deal yet, just a framework agreement for negotiating the deal. But then that means he did not, contrary to the headlines, come out against the deal today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Juan Cole is telling you what he thinks is going on.\u00a0 In using the phrase &#8220;my suspicion is&#8221;, he gives you fair warning that he does not have inside knowledge into Khamenei&#8217;s brain.\u00a0 I just think that, given the one-sided presentation of the negotiations by our new media, it is valuable to consider other possible interpretations that are driven by different agendas.\u00a0 I have not researched what Juan Cole&#8217;s agenda is, but I assume he must have one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Informed Comment has the article Iran: What did Khamenei really say about the Lausanne Agreement, and Why? by Juan Cole. Hard liners are jumping up and down mad about what Rouhani &amp; Zarif are alleged to have given away to the West, and my suspicion is that Khamenei\u2019s demand for immediate end of sanctions is [&hellip;]<\/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-20327","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\/20327","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=20327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20328,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20327\/revisions\/20328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}