{"id":15535,"date":"2009-10-15T15:09:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T15:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/john_p-_hannah_cripple_iran_to_save_it\/"},"modified":"2009-10-15T15:09:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T15:09:51","slug":"john_p-_hannah_cripple_iran_to_save_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15535","title":{"rendered":"John P. Hannah: Cripple Iran to save it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If current negotiations falter, international efforts to curtail Iran&#8217;s nuclear program may escalate to the imposition of &#8220;crippling sanctions&#8221; or even the use of military force. A crucial question that policymakers must consider is whether such punitive measures would help or hinder the popular uprising against the Iranian regime that emerged after the country&#8217;s fraudulent June 12 presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called green movement &#8212; the color has been adopted by the opposition &#8212; poses the most serious challenge to the survivability of the Islamic Republic in its 30-year history. Few analysts doubt that if it succeeded in toppling Iran&#8217;s hard-line regime, the crisis over the Iranian nuclear program would become far more susceptible to diplomatic resolution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-hannah15-2009oct15,0,3827675.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If current negotiations falter, international efforts to curtail Iran&#8217;s nuclear program may escalate to the imposition of &#8220;crippling sanctions&#8221; or even the use of military force. A crucial question that policymakers must consider is whether such punitive measures would help<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15535\">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":[40,50,209,143,144,564,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-iran","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15535","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=15535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}