{"id":994,"date":"2009-09-30T12:19:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T16:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=994"},"modified":"2009-10-01T11:58:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T15:58:42","slug":"iran-infelicitously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/994\/iran-infelicitously\/","title":{"rendered":"The Obama Administration and Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/45-foreign-policy\/368-iran-infelicitously\" target=\"_blank\">a column<\/a> published today,\u00a0CFIF Contributing Editor Troy Senik\u00a0argues that the Administration&#8217;s response to a nuclear Iran must be more definitive.<\/p>\n<p>Below\u00a0are some highlights of\u00a0the piece:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The die has yet to be cast, but when the history of the momentous changes that beset Iran (and with it the world) in the early 21st century is written, this may go down as the first time in our history when Americans \u2013 who often wait too long to respond to a crisis \u2013 failed to react whatsoever.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;Last week, as President Obama gathered with world leaders at a United Nations session in New York, Iran announced the existence of a second nuclear site on its soil, this one\u2019s location obscured deep beneath one of the country\u2019s mountain ranges.\u00a0 For the second time in less than a year, a rogue nation was showing off its weapons capacities as the President held court about the need for a nuclear-free world.\u00a0 The net effect was something like holding a gun control rally in the middle of a gang fight.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Red the full column <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/45-foreign-policy\/368-iran-infelicitously\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a column published today,\u00a0CFIF Contributing Editor Troy Senik\u00a0argues that the Administration&#8217;s response to a nuclear Iran must be more definitive. Below\u00a0are some highlights of\u00a0the piece: The die has yet to be cast, but when the history of the momentous changes that beset Iran (and with it the world) in the early 21st century is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[216,130,24],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-foreign-policy","tag-iran","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}