{"id":1376,"date":"2006-02-10T00:27:41","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T06:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2006-02-10T00:28:34","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T06:28:34","slug":"america-wont-attack-us-says-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1376","title":{"rendered":"America Won&#8217;t Attack Us, Says Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran again <a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/latest.cfm?id=204932006\">grabs the opportunity<\/a> to play the role of the little streetpunk in need of a good smackdown.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An Iranian vice president said he did not believe that the US would attack his country over its nuclear programme and compared defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld to a vampire showing its teeth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Iran is not Iraq, Iran is not Afghanistan,&#8221; Isfandiar Rahim Mashaee said during a visit to the Indonesian capital Jakarta.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They still cannot leave (those two countries), it is impossible for them to invade Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations nuclear watchdog voted last week to refer Iran to the UN Security Council over its nuclear programme &#8211; raising the stakes in the dispute over the Middle Eastern country&#8217;s nuclear ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>The US and Europe suspect Iran is secretly developing bombs, but Iran insists the programme is for energy.<\/p>\n<p>The US has denied it has any plans to invade the country, but Rumsfeld reportedly agreed with a German interviewer recently that all options, including a military response, were on the table.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about that report, Mashaee said Rumsfeld was like &#8220;Dracula showing his teeth&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, yeah, I can kind of see the Dracula in Rummy.  Then again, I kind of like that in a Secretary of Defense.  It&#8217;s not the nature of the position to be the good cop in the greater scheme of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran again grabs the opportunity to play the role of the little streetpunk in need of a good smackdown. An Iranian vice president said he did not believe that the US would attack his country over its nuclear programme and compared defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld to a vampire showing its teeth. &#8220;Iran is not Iraq, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-central-asia","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}