{"id":2727,"date":"2009-12-23T10:58:58","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T15:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2009-12-23T10:58:58","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T15:58:58","slug":"tough-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2727","title":{"rendered":"Tough love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2009\/12\/obama-administration-preparing-iranian-sanctions-outside-of-un-security-council-just-in-case.html\" target=\"_blank\">ABC<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With Iran seemingly rejecting the end-of-year deadline for making diplomatic progress with the West, and the Chinese government continuing to voice opposition to imposing additional sanctions in the United Nations Security Council against the rogue regime, the Obama administration has been preparing other possible additional ways of sanctioning Iran for its pursuit of nuclear weapons, ABC News has learned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Other possible additional <em>sanctions<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes, we&#8217;ve seen the effectiveness of those, throughout history, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iraq_sanctions#Effect_of_the_sanctions_on_the_Iraqi_people\" target=\"_blank\">haven&#8217;t we<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that, for diplomacy to truly function properly, all parties involved must desire it so. But, perhaps I&#8217;m too linear in my approach&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From ABC, With Iran seemingly rejecting the end-of-year deadline for making diplomatic progress with the West, and the Chinese government continuing to voice opposition to imposing additional sanctions in the United Nations Security Council against the rogue regime, the Obama administration has been preparing other possible additional ways of sanctioning Iran for its pursuit of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,50,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-iran","category-rusty"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}