{"id":26987,"date":"2011-06-29T15:20:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T15:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_ex-israeli_spy_chiefs_iran_comments_spark_row\/"},"modified":"2011-06-29T15:20:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T15:20:47","slug":"npr_ex-israeli_spy_chiefs_iran_comments_spark_row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26987","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) Ex-Israeli Spy Chief&#39;s Iran Comments Spark Row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Mossad spy chief&#8217;s name is on everyone&#8217;s lips in Israel \u201d\u201d with good reason.<\/p>\n<p>Meir Dagan was the head of Israel&#8217;s spy agency for eight years and has been credited with raising the international prestige of the agency. So it came as a shock to many that upon leaving office he would talk about one of the most sensitive issues here: Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Dagan has said that a military strike on that nation targeting its suspect nuclear program would be disastrous, and he lambasted the current Israeli leadership for being reckless in pursuing that aim. This past week, Dagan was stripped of his diplomatic passport, in apparent retaliation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/06\/29\/137481920\/ex-israeli-spy-chiefs-iran-comments-spark-row\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Mossad spy chief&#8217;s name is on everyone&#8217;s lips in Israel \u201d\u201d with good reason. Meir Dagan was the head of Israel&#8217;s spy agency for eight years and has been credited with raising the international prestige of the agency.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26987\">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":[39,40,50,143,144,564,565,203,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-iran","category-israel","category-middle-east","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26987","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=26987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}