{"id":1219,"date":"2008-10-08T13:47:52","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T17:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2008-10-08T13:47:52","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T17:47:52","slug":"iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/10\/08\/iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that, right after 9\/11, Iran was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2008\/10\/07\/world\/main4508360.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_4508360\">big ally of the US<\/a>. Let me say that again*: Iran rounded up hundreds of suspected al Qaeda members for us right after 9\/11. They notifed the UN and us, and let us come in and interrogate them. And they &#8220;sought a broader relationship with the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Bush just kept referring to them as the &#8220;axis of evil&#8221; and refused to work with them.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has rapidly been becoming a menace. But how did they go from an ally looking to strengthen ties with us, to an enemy who hates us and is seeking to acquire nuclear weapons?<\/p>\n<p>Why, exactly, is it a bad thing that Obama has said he&#8217;d be willing to meet with Iranian leaders? It sounds like it&#8217;s <em>exactly<\/em> what we need to do: not only might Iran still be willing to work with us, but the article goes on to talk about how a US-Iranian alliance could be useful in the area.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thinly-veiled reference to Joe Biden fully intended.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that, right after 9\/11, Iran was a big ally of the US. Let me say that again*: Iran rounded up hundreds of suspected al Qaeda members for us right after 9\/11. They notifed the UN and us, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/10\/08\/iran\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}