{"id":115,"date":"2018-09-07T14:01:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T15:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2018-10-15T20:51:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T21:51:05","slug":"what-is-it-with-washingtons-love-affair-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/2018\/09\/07\/what-is-it-with-washingtons-love-affair-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"What is it with Washington&#8217;s love affair with Iran?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This is a re-direct to a longer article I recently posted in two parts, which we can leave open here for discussion now:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI recently came across <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2018-07-27\/donald-trump-may-be-prepared-to-strike-iran-sources-say\/10037728\">an article<\/a> <\/span>that caught my attention, regarding plans for an attack on Iran by the US, coming possibly as soon as this month (August 2018). [Thankfully it didn\u2019t happen.] Defense Secretary James Mattis has since denied the claim, which came from Australian intelligence sources. This followed upon the <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2018\/07\/donald-trumps-reckless-iran-tweet\/565838\/\">hyperbolic tweet<\/a><\/span> of Trump\u2019s threatening Iran with apocalyptic consequences if they ever threatened the US again. Iran had done nothing of the kind. The more cynical side of me thinks that Mattis\u2019 denial is confirmation that an attack is being planned. I have read comments in other <span style=\"color: #333333;\">blog sites that echo that cynicism. However, the common sense side of me says no, that an attack on Iran would be <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/stories\/wilkerson-on-iran-trump-follows-the-iraq-war-playbook\">the height of stupidity<\/a><\/span>. But, stupider things have happened. My sense of what is taking place is an effort to get Iran to the negotiating table for a re-negotiation of the Iran nuclear deal (the <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Action\">JCPOA<\/a><\/span>), like we saw with North Korea. The astrology of the US looks quite revealing with regard to both the yes and the no arguments for an attack, as it shows an administration under stress and with its hands tied, at least at the moment. In that sort of scenario, anything is possible. So, in this article we will take a look at Iran, its people, the reasons behind the belligerency of Washington toward Tehran, what the current administration is up against, and what a war with Iran might actually mean, looking at Iran and its people in this section and starting with the astrology of the US at the moment, perhaps finding some clues\u2026\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"http:\/\/malvinartley.com\/iran1.htm\">READ MORE<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Topics<\/strong>: The current US transits; Iran, the nation; Iran\u2019s troublous journey; Life under the Shah; A preview of the future?; The Iranian chart; The Basij<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/1002081\/iran-trump-us-turkey-lira-dollar-world-war-3\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">Featured image link<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This is a re-direct to a longer article I recently posted in two parts, which we can leave open here for discussion now: \u201cI recently came across an article that caught my attention, regarding plans for an attack on Iran by the US, coming possibly as soon as this month (August 2018). [Thankfully it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/2018\/09\/07\/what-is-it-with-washingtons-love-affair-with-iran\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is it with Washington&#8217;s love affair with Iran?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,14,4,13,12],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-astrology","tag-basij","tag-iran","tag-shah","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}