{"id":31649,"date":"2012-03-30T14:39:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T14:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/hard_line_on_iran_places_white_house_in_a_bind\/"},"modified":"2012-03-30T14:39:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T14:39:07","slug":"hard_line_on_iran_places_white_house_in_a_bind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31649","title":{"rendered":"(NY Times) Hard Line on Iran Places White House in a Bind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cObama had two main objectives \u201d\u201d to deflect Israeli pressure to conduct or acquiesce in a premature war, and to neutralize Republican criticism that he is too soft on Iran and too hard on Israel,\u201d\u009d said Robert Malley, program director for the Middle East and North Africa at the International Crisis Group. \u201cOn those fronts, mission accomplished.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>But, Mr. Malley added, \u201cvictory came at a price.\u201d\u009d By stating clearly that containment of a nuclear-armed Iran is off the table, Mr. Obama may have committed America to military action to halt Iran if other means fail to do so, Mr. Malley said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/30\/world\/middleeast\/hard-line-on-iran-places-white-house-in-a-bind.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cObama had two main objectives \u201d\u201d to deflect Israeli pressure to conduct or acquiesce in a premature war, and to neutralize Republican criticism that he is too soft on Iran and too hard on Israel,\u201d\u009d said Robert Malley, program director<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31649\">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":[40,50,143,144,564,203,616,151,667],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-iran","category-middle-east","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31649","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=31649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}