{"id":237955,"date":"2010-01-27T16:15:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T21:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/iran-regime-change-we-can-believe-38691\/"},"modified":"2010-01-27T16:15:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T21:15:47","slug":"iran-regime-change-we-can-believe-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/237955","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Regime Change We Can Believe In"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On 01.27.10 08:59 AM posted by James Phillips<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Iran_Green2-100127.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Iran_Green2-100127.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Iran\u0092s Green Movement opposition has proven to be a stronger and more persistent political force than many advocates of diplomatic engagement with Iran\u0092s dictatorship had expected.  This development, as well as the regime\u0092s continued duplicity and foot-dragging on the nuclear issue, has led some to revise their thinking about supporting regime change in Iran.  For example, Richard Haass, a self-professed \u0093card-carrying realist\u0094 who formerly opposed the Bush Administration\u0092s support for regime change, now has changed his mind.  He has written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/231991\" >an essay<\/a> in the current issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/\" >Newsweek<\/a> that assesses that \u0093Iran may be closer to profound political change than at any time since the revolution that ousted the Shah 30 years ago.\u0094<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the Obama Administration remains wedded to its engagement policy, which unrealistically seeks to strike a deal with the implacably hostile regime, whose self-defined ideological legitimacy is based on unceasing hostility to the United States.  Even if a diplomatic agreement could be reached on the nuclear issue, against all odds, it would be foolhardy to expect Iran\u0092s unscrupulous dictatorship to permanently abide by such an agreement.  Yet the administration continues to seek such a deal over the bloodied heads of Iran\u0092s opposition forces.  Because it continues to define its foreign policy in large part as the opposite of President Bush\u0092s, regime change in Iran is not change that the Obama Administration can believe in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/01\/27\/iran-regime-change-we-can-believe-in\/\" >http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/01\/27\/&#8230;an-believe-in\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 01.27.10 08:59 AM posted by James Phillips Iran\u0092s Green Movement opposition has proven to be a stronger and more persistent political force than many advocates of diplomatic engagement with Iran\u0092s dictatorship had expected. This development, as well as the regime\u0092s continued duplicity and foot-dragging on the nuclear issue, has led some to revise their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}