{"id":312,"date":"2007-11-15T08:40:24","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T08:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=312"},"modified":"2007-11-21T08:53:10","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T08:53:10","slug":"report-on-irans-nuclear-programme-is-not-the-drama-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/report-on-irans-nuclear-programme-is-not-the-drama-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Report on Iran&#8217;s nuclear programme is not the drama expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/shared\/bsp\/hi\/pdfs\/15_11_07_iran_iaeareport.pdf\">report by the IAEA on Iran&#8217;s nuclear programmes<\/a> is not the dramatic revelation that some expected.\u00a0 In Iran&#8217;s favour, most of the data reveals authentic energy applications of nuclear material.\u00a0 On the other hand, questions remain about what current activities are.\u00a0 And those questions are being asked.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/7098751.stm\">response by both Iran and the US is as might have been expected before the report&#8217;s release<\/a>: &#8220;We told you so!&#8221;\u00a0 While it might be OK for Iran to request an apology, it is unhelpful that both (especially America) continues a hard nosed approach to international relations.\u00a0 It certainly adds credibility to the far greater threat that America wants to do an &#8220;Iraq&#8221; in Iran and either control or destroy its oil resources.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s hope the IAEA can be a balancing influence on them both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The report by the IAEA on Iran&#8217;s nuclear programmes is not the dramatic revelation that some expected.\u00a0 In Iran&#8217;s favour, most of the data reveals authentic energy applications of nuclear material.\u00a0 On the other hand, questions remain about what current activities are.\u00a0 And those questions are being asked. The response by both Iran and the &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/report-on-irans-nuclear-programme-is-not-the-drama-expected\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Report on Iran&#8217;s nuclear programme is not the drama expected<\/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,"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":[12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-middle-east"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-52","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}