{"id":950161,"date":"2021-11-01T15:14:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T19:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=950161"},"modified":"2021-11-01T15:14:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T19:14:07","slug":"fmr-obama-mideast-aide-iran-doesnt-take-the-u-s-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fmr-obama-mideast-aide-iran-doesnt-take-the-u-s-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"Fmr Obama Mideast Aide: Iran Doesn&#039;t Take the U.S. Seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffmr-obama-mideast-aide-iran-doesnt-take-the-u-s-seriously%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=950161&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The threat of war is the only chance of pressuring Iran into a diplomatic process, former&nbsp;Middle East peacemaker under the Clinton and Obama administrations, Dennis Ross, wrote in an <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2021\/10\/27\/threat-war-iran-nuclear-biden-israel-only-way-achieve-peace\/\">oped<\/a> in <em>Foreign Policy<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ross, Tehran no longer takes Washington seriously under President Joe Biden and the only way to remedy that is to threaten military action.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cUnless the Iranians understand that the pathway they are on is dangerous for them, the probability of the use of force will go up,\u201d writes Ross.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the United States wants to reduce the risk of a conflict and give diplomacy a chance to succeed, the Biden administration is going to have to restore Iran\u2019s fear of a U.S. reaction and apply pressure far more effectively,\u201d he asserts.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15450277\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AP_21015355057980.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15450277\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AP_21015355057980.png\" alt=\"In this photo released on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, missiles are launched in a drill in Iran. Iran&#039;s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard forces on Friday held a military exercise involving ballistic missiles and drones in the country&#039;s central desert, state TV reported, amid heightened tensions over Tehran&#039;s nuclear program and a U.S. pressure campaign against the Islamic Republic. (Iranian Revolutionary Guard\/Sepahnews via AP)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>In this photo released on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, missiles are launched in a drill in Iran amid heightened tensions over Tehran\u2019s nuclear program and a U.S. pressure campaign against the Islamic Republic. (Iranian Revolutionary Guard\/Sepahnews via AP)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to Ross, the Iranians took bold steps, including enriching uranium to 60% \u2014 near weapons-grade level and blocking the UN\u2019s nuclear watchdog from accessing sites&nbsp; \u2014 because it knew that doing so would evoke no reaction on the part of the U.S. or the other P5+1 members of the Obama-led JCPOA.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAnd they were right\u2014there was no consequence,\u201d Ross writes.<\/p>\n<p>He continues by outlining two possible scenarios that explain the rationale behind Iran\u2019s aggressive actions towards obtaining the bomb.<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12\">\n<p>Are the Iranians pressing ahead now with near weapons-grade enrichment, uranium metal, and cascades of advanced centrifuges to pressure Washington into improving the terms of the nuclear deal, where they get more sanctions relief than they are entitled in exchange for fewer constraints on their nuclear infrastructure? Or are they doing so because they want to achieve a Japan-like threshold capability that would enable them to move very quickly to a nuclear weapon if they chose to do so? Or both, since these are not mutually exclusive options?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The latter option, says Ross, in which Iran would achieve&nbsp;Japan-like threshold weapons capability, would give it \u201cthe ability to present the world with a nuclear&nbsp;<em>fait accompli<\/em>&nbsp;at a time of its choosing,\u201d and is a scenario that Israel would never accept and would compel the Israelis to \u201cmilitarily attack Iran\u2019s whole nuclear infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/blinken-says-us-talks-with-allies-getting-iran-agree-nuclear-deal-2021-10-31\/\">CNN<\/a> on Sunday,&nbsp;Secretary of State Antony Blinken again reiterated that the U.S. was willing&nbsp;to look at \u201call of the options necessary\u201d if diplomacy failed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not yet know if Iran is willing to come back, and to engage in a meaningful way and get back into compliance,\u201d Blinken said. \u201cIf it isn\u2019t, if it won\u2019t, then we are looking together at all of the options necessary to deal with this problem.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The threat of war is the only chance of pressuring Iran into a diplomatic process, former\u00a0Middle East peacemaker under the Clinton and Obama administrations, Dennis Ross, wrote in an oped &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}