{"id":2488,"date":"2006-07-27T13:38:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2488"},"modified":"2006-07-27T13:38:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T17:38:00","slug":"iran-uninterrupted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2006\/07\/27\/13\/38\/iran-uninterrupted\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran, Uninterrupted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002_01_20_WeekArchive.php#'9047569'\">Four years<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004_05_23_WeekArchive.php#'108559994758860082'\">two years<\/a> ago I noted that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/iran\/story\/0,12858,1224076,00.html\">Iran seemed to have successfully duped the US into removing both of its main regional adversaries<\/a>, the Taliban and Saddam Hussein, and in the process revealing the limited extent of US power and strengthening Iran into a regional co-superpower with Israel. Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2146532\/\">Iran seems to have manoeuvred Israel into yet another tediously offensive war<\/a> within and occupation of the morass of southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2146535\/\">The 135,000 overburdened U.S. troops are potential hostagesor targetsfor Iran should the United States take military action to destroy Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities &#8230; By having terrorists nab the Israelis, the Iranians both upended the G8 summit discussions about their nuclear program and sent a clear reminder of the tools at their disposal should there be a confrontation.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years and two years ago I noted that Iran seemed to have successfully duped the US into removing both of its main regional adversaries, the Taliban and Saddam Hussein, and in the process&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}