{"id":6986,"date":"2009-02-27T20:42:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T01:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6986"},"modified":"2009-02-27T20:42:46","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T01:42:46","slug":"sasan-fayazmanesh-dennis-ross-and-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6986","title":{"rendered":"Sasan Fayazmanesh: Dennis Ross and Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sasan Fayazmanesh, Counterpunch, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/sasan02272009.html\">27 February 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In October 2008 I presented a paper, entitled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.payvand.com\/news\/08\/oct\/1245.html\">What the Future has in Store for Iran<\/a>,\u201d at a conference on Middle East Studies. The paper, which was subsequently posted at Payvand.com , examined what the US policy toward Iran might look like if either Barack Obama or John McCain came to office. The conclusion of my essay, stated in its last two lines, was: \u201cIn the case of McCain, the war [waged against Iran] might come sooner than later. In Obama\u2019s case, one might see a period of \u2018tough\u2019 or \u2018aggressive diplomacy\u2019 before hostilities begin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/sasan02272009.html\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sasan Fayazmanesh, Counterpunch, 27 February 2009 In October 2008 I presented a paper, entitled \u201cWhat the Future has in Store for Iran,\u201d at a conference on Middle East Studies. The paper, which was subsequently posted at Payvand.com , examined &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6986\">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-6986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1OG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986","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=6986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6989,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986\/revisions\/6989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}