{"id":7079,"date":"2016-12-09T20:35:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T02:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=7079"},"modified":"2016-12-09T20:35:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T02:35:39","slug":"the-iran-deal-roundup-ctd-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/09\/the-iran-deal-roundup-ctd-38\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iran Deal Roundup, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

For all the complaints concerning the Iran nuclear deal, the whining of the Iranian hardliners is far more telling about the deal – they hate that they danced with the Great Satan, and looks like they lost. So now they’re looking to take out their frustrations on the Iranian Finance Minister, according<\/a> to Changiz Varzi in AL Monitor<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0in an article tellingly entitled “Iranian hard-liner alleges FM Zarif is American spy<\/em>“:<\/p>\n

On Dec. 3, Hossein Allahkaram, the head of the coordination council of Ansar-e Hezbollah, a semi-official paramilitary organization, alluded to Iran\u2019s foreign minister being a US spy<\/a>. On his official Instagram page, Allahkaram wrote, \u201cSome believe that [Zarif\u2019s] exceptional ties with American intelligence entities are undeniable. \u2026 Reuters had reported that the phone numbers of American politicians and intelligence officials, such as [Vice President] Joe Biden and [former Secretary of Defense] Chuck Hagel, are saved in Zarif\u2019s cellphone, which [Zarif] hurriedly denied.\u201d Allahkaram\u2019s post continued, \u201cInterestingly, [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, in a secret meeting with a high-ranking [Iranian] official, said that \u2018according to our information, Zarif is an American agent.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Though the reasons for what happened next remain unclear \u2014 with some speculating that the Office of the Supreme Leader directly chastised Allahkaram \u2014 he subsequently did a U-turn and edited the Instagram post<\/a> to remove the espionage allegation against Zarif and apologized for \u201cany misunderstanding [he] might have caused.\u201d Yet a screenshot of his original post was widely shared by Iranian social media users, especially on Twitter. One user tweeted<\/a>, \u201cIs it not a crime to [falsely] accuse [the] FM? Mr. Prosecutor, you have again showed favoritism.\u201d …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[The Reformist Aftab-e Yazd daily]\u00a0compared Zarif to prominent figures in Iranian mythology, such as Arash Kamangir, and historic political figures, such as Amir Kabir<\/a> and Mohammad Mossadegh<\/a>, who are widely hailed for their efforts to fight foreign domination throughout Iran’s history. Aftab-e Yazd added, \u201cSince the nuclear deal was reached, the \u2018worried ones\u2019 [the hard-liners opposed to the JCPOA] have been waiting for a suitable excuse to attack Zarif. \u2026 What better excuse than the 10-year extension of the Iran Sanctions Act? Now is the perfect moment to say that the Iranian national hero is an American spy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One wonders if Iran’s major problem throughout history is backbiting. It’s certainly been an American bugaboo for the last 20 years, but before then we were better at acting together when foreign enemies threatened.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For all the complaints concerning the Iran nuclear deal, the whining of the Iranian hardliners is far more telling about the deal – they hate that they danced with the Great Satan, and looks like they lost. So now they’re looking to take out their frustrations on the Iranian Finance \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7080,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7079\/revisions\/7080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}