{"id":9364,"date":"2017-05-08T19:44:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T00:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=9364"},"modified":"2017-05-08T19:44:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T00:44:12","slug":"iranian-politics-ctd-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/05\/08\/iranian-politics-ctd-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Politics, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iran held its second of three presidential debates<\/a>, and the focus turned to that irritant under their hide – the nuclear deal<\/a>. Rohollah Faghihi reports <\/a>in AL Monitor<\/b><\/i>:<\/p>\n

The most controversial issue during the second debate, which dealt with political and social issues, was the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). At the time of its signing in 2015, many conservatives expressed staunch criticism of the nuclear deal, but during the May 5 debate, Ghalibaf and fellow conservative Ebrahim Raisi both vowed to protect the JCPOA and remain committed to it. However, they said that they do not consider the deal as perfect, and questioned the Rouhani administration\u2019s ability to take sufficient advantage of it. Indeed, Ghalibaf and Raisi likened the nuclear deal to a check\u00a0Rouhani \u201cis not able to cash.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response, Rouhani challenged Ghalibaf’s and Raisi\u2019s command of the details of the nuclear crisis, saying, \u201cWhat do you know about the JCPOA that\u00a0[compels] you to talk like this?\u201d In response, Raisi said, \u201cWhen Mr. Rouhani was the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council [1989-2005], a meeting was held between him and me, and I told him that we had\u00a0received some reports about the NPT [Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty], and I asked him if he was aware of this, but he said [let’s] talk about it later.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rouhani also accused his rivals \u2014\u00a0and the conservative camp more broadly \u2014\u00a0of plotting to kill the nuclear deal while being \u201cjubilant\u201d about the election of US President Donald Trump, since he had pledged to tear up the JCPOA during his campaign. Noting the installment of anti-negotiation billboards by the Tehran municipality headed by Ghalibaf during the nuclear talks, Rouhani said, \u201cIf the JCPOA was acceptable to you, then why did you install billboards across Tehran, and spoke in that way with the [Iranian] negotiators. \u2026 Your talk was similar to the statements of [Iran\u2019s] opponents, including the Wahhabists [Saudi Arabia] and the Zionists [Israel].\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s interesting how the conservatives on both sides of the conflict hate the instrument of peace. Perhaps the conflict itself gives them a reason to exist? Granted, on the American side there’s more to it; what about the Iranian side?<\/p>\n

A live blog<\/a> of the debate by Golnaz Esfandiari is on RadioFreeEurope \/ RadioLiberty.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iran held its second of three presidential debates, and the focus turned to that irritant under their hide – the nuclear deal. Rohollah Faghihi reports in AL Monitor: The most controversial issue during the second debate, which dealt with political and social issues, was the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action \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-9364","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\/9364","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=9364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9365,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364\/revisions\/9365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}