{"id":7420,"date":"2010-10-19T14:05:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T18:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7420"},"modified":"2010-10-19T18:54:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T22:54:30","slug":"from-tehran-with-a-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7420\/from-tehran-with-a-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"From Tehran, With a Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/45-foreign-policy\/785-venezuela-iran-a-russia-a-virus-to-american-foreign-policy-\" target=\"_blank\">parallel alliance between the world\u2019s governing thugs<\/a> continues to follow a James Bond movie scenario: buffoonish villains pursuing absurdly dramatic evil.\u00a0 Other than a shared penchant for casual clothing and over-the-top rhetoric, however, there\u2019s nothing funny about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=CNG.737890bf1c048f30ee89ce13aa9232f5.181&amp;show_article=1 \" target=\"_blank\">the increasingly close alliance between Venezuela, Iran and Russia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Venezuela\u2019s Hugo Chavez is traveling to Russia and Iran to secure cooperation agreements on nuclear enrichment, oil production and other stick-in-the-eye measures to America and its allies.<\/p>\n<p>At some point, Americans will wake up to a clutch of hostile nations that have nuclear weapons in volatile regions.\u00a0 Hopefully, the Obama Administration is doing much more strategic planning than waiting for a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Felix_Leiter \" target=\"_blank\">Felix Leiter-type CIA operative<\/a> to save the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A parallel alliance between the world\u2019s governing thugs continues to follow a James Bond movie scenario: buffoonish villains pursuing absurdly dramatic evil.\u00a0 Other than a shared penchant for casual clothing and over-the-top rhetoric, however, there\u2019s nothing funny about the increasingly close alliance between Venezuela, Iran and Russia. This week, Venezuela\u2019s Hugo Chavez is traveling to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,139,1975,568,130,1976,1230,141,1974,1766],"class_list":["post-7420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-cia","tag-felix-leiter","tag-hugo-chavez","tag-iran","tag-james-bond","tag-mahmoud-ahmadinejad","tag-russia","tag-venezuela","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7420"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7430,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420\/revisions\/7430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}