{"id":4260,"date":"2010-02-01T16:04:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T21:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4260"},"modified":"2011-02-17T16:31:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:31:27","slug":"irans-nuke-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/02\/01\/irans-nuke-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s nuke dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4261\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/02\/Iran-nuclear-weapons-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Iran nuclear weapons\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>With international atomic energy officials still <a title=\"dickering\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE60S1S520100129\" target=\"_blank\">dickering<\/a> with Iran over Iran&#8217;s uranium-enrichment program, international relations Professor <a title=\"Augustus Richard Norton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/alphabetical\/norton\/\" target=\"_blank\">Augustus Richard Norton<\/a>, in a <a title=\"Q&amp;A\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/node\/10235\" target=\"_blank\">Q&amp;A<\/a> with <em>BU Today<\/em>, says that given the political realities in the United States it&#8217;s going to be difficult to deter the Iranians from what they&#8217;re doing.<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #343a3e\"><em>&#8220;If I were advising the president on this topic, I would allow the situation in Iran to continue to unfold, pursue and facilitate the swap of enriched uranium vis-\u00e0-vis Turkey, and pursue limited sanctions with a view to targeting Iranian officials rather than the Iranian public in general.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #343a3e\">Contact Augustus Richard Norton, 617-353-7808, <a href=\"mailto:arn@bu.edu\">arn@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With international atomic energy officials still dickering with Iran over Iran&#8217;s uranium-enrichment program, international relations Professor Augustus Richard Norton, in a Q&amp;A with BU Today, says that given the political realities in the United States it&#8217;s going to be difficult to deter the Iranians from what they&#8217;re doing. &#8220;If I were advising the president on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[919,2310,2391],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4260"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8157,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions\/8157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}