{"id":454,"date":"2008-01-18T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxalien.com\/purplemass\/?p=454"},"modified":"2008-01-18T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T16:16:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"US &#8211; Iran Relations: Fifty Years of Deceit"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A few days ago the prestigious Milan daily, Corriere della Sera, published the translation of an article by Neocon, Robert Kagan. The Italian version of the article bore the title \u201cTrattare Con Teheran? Meglio Farlo Subito\u201d (Negotiate With Tehran? Better Do It Now.) The article was headed by a secondary title written in red: \u201cThe Nuclear Threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As I read the four-column article I ticked what for me were dubious or false statements and claims, either of fact or opinion. Kagan\u2019s apparently smooth article is predictably infected with an underlying hypocrisy and well known America-centrism making the writer\u2019s occasional hypocritical attempts at any kind of balance laughable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.countercurrents.org\/stewart180108.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago the prestigious Milan daily, Corriere della Sera, published the translation of an article by Neocon, Robert Kagan. The Italian version of the article bore the title \u201cTrattare Con Teheran? Meglio Farlo Subito\u201d (Negotiate With Tehran? Better Do It Now.) The article was headed by a secondary title written in red: \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politiks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}