{"id":533772,"date":"2010-04-19T09:05:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T13:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=82651"},"modified":"2010-04-19T09:05:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T13:05:46","slug":"mullen-no-one%e2%80%99s-going-to-attack-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/533772","title":{"rendered":"Mullen: No One\u2019s Going to Attack Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noah Shachtman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2010\/04\/mullen-please-for-the-love-of-god-dont-attack-iran\/?intcid=inform_relatedContent#ixzz0lYCz7Kwz\">attends a Columbia University address by Adm. Michael Mullen<\/a>, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that featured the admiral tamping down the persistent speculation that the U.S. or perhaps certain anxious Mideastern allies will attack Iran:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sure, U.S. strikes might set back Tehran\u2019s atomic weapons program \u2014 for a while. But the \u201cunintended consequences\u201d of a hit on Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities could easily outweigh the benefits of that delay, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jcs.mil\/biography.aspx?ID=9\">Admiral Mike Mullen<\/a> told a forum at Columbia University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran getting a nuclear weapon would be incredibly destabilizing. Attacking them would also create the same kind of outcome,\u201d Mullen said. \u201cIn an area that\u2019s so unstable right now, we just don\u2019t need more of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If there was any doubt that the Pentagon doesn&#8217;t want the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/82626\/making-sense-of-gates-iran-memo\">January Gates Memo on Iran<\/a> misinterpreted, let it be allayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noah Shachtman attends a Columbia University address by Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that featured the admiral tamping down the persistent speculation that the U.S. or perhaps certain anxious Mideastern allies will attack Iran: Sure, U.S. strikes might set back Tehran\u2019s atomic weapons program \u2014 for a while. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533772","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\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}