{"id":39291,"date":"2014-03-19T10:18:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T17:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=39291"},"modified":"2014-03-19T10:18:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T17:18:03","slug":"will-the-ukraine-crisis-impact-irans-nuclear-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/03\/19\/will-the-ukraine-crisis-impact-irans-nuclear-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Ukraine Crisis Impact Iran&#8217;s Nuclear Talks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140319Uprising\/2014_03_19_Irantalks.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Reese Ehrlich <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140319Uprising\/2014_03_19_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Host Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/iran_talks.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Against the backdrop of the crisis in the Ukraine, talks are taking place in Vienna on the fate of Iran\u2019s nuclear program. The P5+1 countries negotiating with Iran are the United States, Britain, China, France, Russia and Germany. Iran had agreed to a 6 month temporary accord in January to reduce uranium enrichment and other nuclear-related activities in exchange for fewer Western sanctions. <\/p>\n<p>Although Iran has not brought up the political conflict in the Ukraine during the talks, analysts are concerned that the crisis could create factions among the negotiators which could impact any permanent accord on Iran\u2019s nuclear future. <\/p>\n<p>Over the last 20 years Russia and Iran have seen the increasing expansion of NATO around its borders, creating a serious distrust of Western military expansionism. Although Russia did ally itself with the US when Iran was placed under the temporary accord, the current situation in the Ukraine may alter Russia\u2019s position on Iran. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Reese Erlich, veteran freelance foreign correspondent who has traveled widely across the Middle East. He has written a number of books including \u201cConversations with Terrorists: Middle East Leaders on Politics, Violence, and Empire\u201d and &#8220;Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against the backdrop of the crisis in the Ukraine, talks are taking place in Vienna on the fate of Iran\u2019s nuclear program. The P5+1 countries negotiating with Iran are the United States, Britain, China, France, Russia and Germany. Iran had agreed to a 6 month temporary accord in January to reduce uranium enrichment and other [&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-39291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39291","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=39291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39300,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39291\/revisions\/39300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}