{"id":3388,"date":"2009-03-22T22:28:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T03:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=3388"},"modified":"2009-03-22T22:28:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T03:28:54","slug":"peace-in-our-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/peace-in-our-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace in our time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/northamerica\/usa\/barackobama\/5021796\/Iran-responds-to-Barack-Obamas-video-appeal-with-nuclear-pledge.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Iran responds to Barack Obama&#8217;s video appeal with nuclear pledge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US President Barack Obama&#8217;s appeal for a &#8216;new beginning&#8217; with Iran has been met by a pledge to turn on the country&#8217;s nuclear power plant this year.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Obama sent Iran an unprecedented videotaped message offering a fresh start in diplomatic engagement after decades of US hostility to the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n<p>In an unusually swift reaction to Mr Obama&#8217;s overture, Aliakbar Javanfekr, an aide to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said Iran welcomed &#8220;the interest of the American government to settle differences&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But he said that the US government &#8220;should realise its previous mistakes and make an effort to amend them&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration:line-through;\">grovelling<\/span> overture to Iran reminds of something; now what was it? Oh, yes, this:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube= http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pmwmuPTa0To]<\/p>\n<p>Except Neville Chamberlain was less naive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here Iran responds to Barack Obama&#8217;s video appeal with nuclear pledge US President Barack Obama&#8217;s appeal for a &#8216;new beginning&#8217; with Iran has been met by a pledge to turn on the country&#8217;s nuclear power plant this year. Mr &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/peace-in-our-time\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[2227],"class_list":["post-3388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}