{"id":4325,"date":"2008-09-24T11:02:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T16:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4325"},"modified":"2008-09-24T11:02:37","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T16:02:37","slug":"kaveh-l-afrasiabi-iran-plays-up-its-peacemaker-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4325","title":{"rendered":"Kaveh L Afrasiabi: Iran plays up its peacemaker role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Kaveh L Afrasiabi, Asia Times, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/atimes\/Middle_East\/JI25Ak04.html\">25 September 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8211; On Tuesday, in his brief meeting with Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon asked for Iran&#8217;s assistance with the political process in Iraq and expressed appreciation for Tehran&#8217;s mediating role in the Caucasus.<\/p>\n<p>Basking in the glory of Iran&#8217;s improving image as a conflict mediator, Iranian officials visiting the UN headquarters for the annual meeting of the General Assembly are intent on taking this one step further by seeking the formation of a new global alliance for peace, together with other developing nations.<\/p>\n<p>This idea, initially raised by Ahmadinejad in his speech before the UN last September, is now on the verge of being fleshed out in more detail as a result of a new sense of urgency felt by many (developing) nations that new and concrete initiatives are needed to avoid the scourge of wars and conflicts and to bolster the UN&#8217;s peace efforts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/atimes\/Middle_East\/JI25Ak04.html\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kaveh L Afrasiabi, Asia Times, 25 September 2008 NEW YORK &#8211; On Tuesday, in his brief meeting with Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon asked for Iran&#8217;s assistance with the political process in Iraq and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4325\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-17L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4327,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4325\/revisions\/4327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}