{"id":37099,"date":"2013-08-07T09:50:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T16:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=37099"},"modified":"2013-08-08T12:00:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T19:00:38","slug":"irans-new-president-offers-olive-branch-will-obama-take-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/08\/07\/irans-new-president-offers-olive-branch-will-obama-take-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s New President Offers Olive Branch &#8211; Will Obama Take It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130807Uprising\/2013_08_07_iran.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130807Uprising\/2013_08_07_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/hassan_rouhani.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Iran\u2019s new president, Hassan Rouhani, has signaled a willingness to negotiate with the West. Rouhani, who was inaugurated earlier this week, has a reputation in sharp contrast to his predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, and was elected with the strong support of Iran\u2019s reformist movement. <\/p>\n<p>In nominating his cabinet, however, he named no overt reformists, sticking instead to what the regional press are calling well-educated \u201ctechnocrats.\u201d Rouhani also didn\u2019t pick a single female cabinet member, unlike Ahmedinejad, and nominated for the position of Justice Minister, a man accused of mass summary executions carried out in the 1980s. <\/p>\n<p>Although he has yet to announce a nuclear negotiator, Rouhani has publicly made conciliatory motions toward the US on the thorny issue of nuclear development. <\/p>\n<p>But, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems to have already made up his mind about the new Iranian president, attributing to him an incorrect inflammatory quote about Israel. <\/p>\n<p>Some analysts fear that Israel continues to greatly sway US nuclear policy on Iran, and that in fact, because \u201cregime change\u201d is ultimately the US\u2019s goal in Iran, no amount of moderation or reconciliation from Iran will resolve the nuclear standoff. \u201c<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Sasan Fayazmanesh, Professor Emeritus of Economics at California State University, Fresno. He is the author of The United States and Iran: Sanctions, Wars and the Policy of Dual Containment. He just wrote an article on Counterpunch.org called \u201cWhat Should be Expected from President Rowhani?\u201d and his forthcoming book is called Containing Iran: Obama\u2019s Policy of \u201cTough Diplomacy\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2013\/06\/18\/what-should-be-expected-from-president-rowhani\/\">Click here<\/a> to read Fayazmanesh&#8217;s article about Iran. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s new president, Hassan Rouhani, has signaled a willingness to negotiate with the West. Rouhani, who was inaugurated earlier this week, has a reputation in sharp contrast to his predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, and was elected with the strong support of Iran\u2019s reformist movement. In nominating his cabinet, however, he named no overt reformists, sticking instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37162,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37099\/revisions\/37162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}