{"id":1588,"date":"2009-06-14T07:45:10","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T14:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2009-06-14T07:45:10","modified_gmt":"2009-06-14T14:45:10","slug":"israels-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/israels-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel’s Opportunity?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just wondering after reading this: Clashes erupt for 2nd day in Tehran over vote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s a bit from the piece:<\/p>\n

There’s little chance that the youth-driven movement could immediately threaten the pillars of power in Iran \u2014 the ruling clerics and the vast network of military and intelligence forces at their command \u2014 but it raises the possibility that a sustained and growing backlash could complicate Iran’s policies at a pivotal time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe Israel will figure out this is a great time to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities.<\/p>\n

Or maybe they’ll decide a strike now will reverse the opposition to Iran’s president and thus could be counter-productive to Israeli interests.<\/p>\n

Perhaps in his much-anticipated speech today, Israel’s Netanyahu will borrow one of President Reagan’s lines: “The bombs start falling in five minutes.” \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

And of Tehran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just wondering after reading this: Clashes erupt for 2nd day in Tehran over vote. Here’s a bit from the piece: There’s little chance that the youth-driven movement could immediately threaten the pillars of power in Iran \u2014 the ruling clerics and the vast network of military and intelligence forces at their command \u2014 but it … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[668,89,94],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","tag-elections","tag-iran","tag-israel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-pC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}