{"id":16182,"date":"2014-11-25T12:30:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T11:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16182"},"modified":"2014-11-25T12:35:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T11:35:26","slug":"eight-years-ago-the-hawks-wanted-to-bomb-iran-and-they-still-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16182","title":{"rendered":"Eight years ago, the hawks wanted to bomb Iran &#8211; and they still do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/nov\/24\/iran-nuclear-talks-likely-extended-vienna\">very disappointing news<\/a> that agreement has not been reached between Iran and the six Western partners on control of Iran&#8217;s nuclear programme, but the parties are still talking and there is a new timetable. \u00a0As long as eight years ago, I did a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=291\">blog posting<\/a> pointing out that some observers saw the bombing of Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities by Israel as imminent because allegedly we had reached a tipping point in the programme.<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness that bombing did not happen &#8211; not least because I had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Iran.html\">a visit to Iran<\/a> planned which eventually took place in November 2009.<\/p>\n<p>But an agreement still has many obstacles to overcome and, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/nov\/24\/iran-nuclear-talks-extension-raises-risk-cataclysmic-failure\">this article<\/a> explains, there are many who would like the negotiations to fail:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The governments and leaders favouring a deal did not exactly lose in Vienna, but it is clear who came out ahead \u2013 the conservative rejectionists and clerical last-ditchers who dominate Tehran\u2019s political establishment, parliament and media; the mostly Republican hardliners in the US congress who oppose an agreement at any price; Israel\u2019s leadership and the Gulf Arab monarchies, who distrust everything Tehran says; and Islamist Sunni extremists in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere, who exploit differences between Shia Iran and the west to pursue their vicious hegemonist fantasies.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s very disappointing news that agreement has not been reached between Iran and the six Western partners on control of Iran&#8217;s nuclear programme, but the parties are still talking and there is a new timetable. \u00a0As long as eight years ago, I did a blog posting pointing out that some observers saw the bombing of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16182"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16191,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16182\/revisions\/16191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}