{"id":4291,"date":"2019-07-07T19:46:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T02:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=4291"},"modified":"2019-07-07T19:46:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T02:46:15","slug":"on-iran-violating-the-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=4291","title":{"rendered":"On Iran Violating the Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, let&#8217;s establish a baseline truth: Iran is ruled by a repressive government that would be better off gone.<\/p>\n<p>That said, just what would one <em>expect<\/em> Iran, or any other country for that matter, to do when:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It signs a binding multi-party agreement, then<\/li>\n<li>One of the parties tears up the agreement, and<\/li>\n<li>Not only that, that same party then behaves in a way that sabotages all the other parties&#8217; ability to honor the agreement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Really, now: given all that, to expect Iran to keep honoring its side of the deal, just to be nice, is the mother of all unrealistic expectations. <em>Of course<\/em> Iran decided that since the agreement was torn up, it didn&#8217;t matter anymore. In related news, water is wet and the Pope is Roman Catholic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, let&#8217;s establish a baseline truth: Iran is ruled by a repressive government that would be better off gone. That said, just what would one expect Iran, or any other country for that matter, to do when: It signs a binding multi-party agreement, then One of the parties tears up the agreement, and Not only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}