{"id":4003,"date":"2010-05-20T14:54:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T19:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4003"},"modified":"2010-05-20T14:56:11","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T19:56:11","slug":"usisrael-challenged-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/05\/20\/usisrael-challenged-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"US\/Israel Challenged on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Article by Ray McGovern\" href=\"http:\/\/www.consortiumnews.com\/2010\/051910a.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the article by Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst.<\/p>\n<p>Among the arguments against conventional wisdom on Iran are the following paragraphs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many Washington insiders were shocked last Oct.  1 when Tehran agreed to  send 2,640 pounds (then as much as 75 percent of Iran\u2019s  total) of  low-enriched uranium abroad to be turned into fuel for a small  reactor  that does medical research.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nThe conventional wisdom presented in the FCM today has it that Tehran backed off the deal. True; but that is only half the story, a tale that highlights how, in Israel\u2019s set of priorities, regime change in Iran comes first.<\/p>\n<p>The uranium swap had the initial support of Iran\u2019s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. And a follow-up meeting was scheduled for Oct. 19 at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>However, the accord soon came under criticism from Iran\u2019s opposition groups, including the \u201cGreen Movement\u201d led by defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, who has had ties to the American neocons and to Israel since the Iran-Contra days of the 1980s when he was the prime minister who collaborated on secret arms deals.<\/p>\n<p>Strangely, it was Mousavi\u2019s U.S.-favored political opposition that led the assault on the nuclear agreement, calling it an affront to Iran\u2019s sovereignty and suggesting that Ahmadinejad wasn\u2019t being tough enough.<\/p>\n<p>Then, on Oct. 18, a terrorist group called Jundullah, acting on amazingly accurate intelligence, detonated a car bomb at a meeting of top Iranian Revolutionary Guards commanders and tribal leaders in the province of Sistan-Baluchistan in southeastern Iran. A car full of Guards was also attacked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In case you are wondering about the acronym FCM, it stands for Fawning  Corporate Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the article by Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst. Among the arguments against conventional wisdom on Iran are the following paragraphs. Many Washington insiders were shocked last Oct. 1 when Tehran agreed to send 2,640 pounds (then as much as 75 percent of Iran\u2019s total) of low-enriched uranium abroad to be turned [&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-4003","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\/4003","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=4003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4005,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions\/4005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}