{"id":12757,"date":"2009-05-12T15:30:38","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T15:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_london_times_editorial_tehran_turns\/"},"modified":"2009-05-12T15:30:38","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T15:30:38","slug":"a_london_times_editorial_tehran_turns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12757","title":{"rendered":"A (London) Times Editorial: Tehran Turns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ms Saberi&#8217;s release shows that while Iran&#8217;s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad likes to wave a big stick, he is also capable of talking softly. It indicates that relations between Washington and Tehran need not be poisoned permanently by a sense of hostility. It suggests that Iran &#8211; and, crucially, President Ahmadinejad, given expectations of his victory in next month&#8217;s elections &#8211; are ready to respond to America&#8217;s wooing.<\/p>\n<p>That does not mean the diplomatic path from here will be either straight or easy. Suspicion that hangs like a fog between the two countries will not lift like a summer morning mist. It will not bring a swift end to the two countries&#8217; friction over the aims of Iran&#8217;s nuclear programme.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/leading_article\/article6269127.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ms Saberi&#8217;s release shows that while Iran&#8217;s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad likes to wave a big stick, he is also capable of talking softly. It indicates that relations between Washington and Tehran need not be poisoned permanently by a sense of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12757\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-foreign-relations","category-iran","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12757","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=12757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}