{"id":11058,"date":"2009-02-03T16:30:17","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T16:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/obama_has_begun_discreet_talks_with_iran_syria\/"},"modified":"2009-02-03T16:30:17","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T16:30:17","slug":"obama_has_begun_discreet_talks_with_iran_syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11058","title":{"rendered":"Obama has begun discreet talks with Iran, Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Barack Obama has already used experts within the last few months to hold high-level but discreet talks with both Iran and Syria, organizers of the meetings told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Officially, Obama&#8217;s overtures toward both Tehran and Damascus have remained limited.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview broadcast Monday, Obama said the United States would offer arch-foe Iran an extended hand of diplomacy if the Islamic Republic&#8217;s leaders &#8220;unclenched their fist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=CNG.93cd29fb2714a7b91e94a5dcabcde606.1b1&#038;show_article=1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Barack Obama has already used experts within the last few months to hold high-level but discreet talks with both Iran and Syria, organizers of the meetings told AFP. Officially, Obama&#8217;s overtures toward both Tehran and Damascus have remained<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11058\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,144,564,203,616,151,667,556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-foreign-relations","category-iran","category-middle-east","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}