{"id":15623,"date":"2015-07-15T11:56:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T18:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15623"},"modified":"2015-07-15T11:56:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T18:56:07","slug":"reactions-to-the-iran-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/15\/reactions-to-the-iran-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Reactions to the Iran Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0715IranDeal\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0715IranDeal\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/0715IranDeal.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Normally, I have an article to share, but today I\u2019m just going to share six video clips in which Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O\u2019Donnell and their guests express their views.&#160; Finally there is a summery of the Republican Plan.&#160; I\u2019d also like you to have to have an opportunity to do something that no Republican could have done before declaring opposition to the deal.&#160; To read the text in it\u2019s entirety, <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.washingtonpost.com\/g\/documents\/world\/full-text-of-the-iran-nuclear-deal\/1651\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/on.msnbc.com\/1I0ycUW\" target=\"_blank\">Ed\u2019s video<\/a>: <\/font>President Barack Obama hails a deal to limit Iran&#8217;s nuclear program but Republicans vow to kill it. Ed Schultz, Sen. Barbara Boxer, Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Paul Eaton and the Stimon Center\u2019s Laicie Heeley weigh in on the historic agreement.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_ed_irandeal_150714\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/on.msnbc.com\/1RxPmxD\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel\u2019s first video<\/a>: Joe Cirincione, president of The Ploughshares Fund, talks with Rachel Maddow about the chances for success of the newly announced nuclear deal with Iran and how diplomacy could take the US and Iran out of a war posture for the first time in a generation.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_airan_150714\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/on.msnbc.com\/1HKe7fk\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel\u2019s second video<\/a>: Vali Nasr, dean of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, talks with Rachel Maddow about politics within the U.S. and also within Iran, and the pressures of global circumstances that will determine whether the Iran nuclear deal succeeds.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_biran_150714\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/on.msnbc.com\/1I1auI6\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence\u2019s first video<\/a>: The Iran deal states &quot;&#8230; under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapons.&quot; Lawrence discusses the details of the deal with nuclear expert Matthew Bunn, analyst Phyllis Bennis and Foreign Policy&#8217;s James Traub.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_lw_a_iran_150714\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/on.msnbc.com\/1TBCuEt\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence\u2019s second video<\/a>: Lawrence talks to NBC News Historian Michael Beschloss and Jonathan Alter about the historical significance of today&#8217;s deal with Iran and what it could mean for Pres. Obama&#8217;s legacy after he leaves office.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_lw_c_iran_150714\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican Plan: <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/o-zoPgv_nYg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Looking ahead, there are two things to keep in mind.&#160; Most of the arguments against the deal relate to Iran\u2019s status as a bad actor, which is true,&#160; But Iran\u2019s non-nuclear behavior has nothing to do with this deal.&#160; Second, the other choices are to accept Itan having nuclear weapons short term of go to war to stop it.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, I have an article to share, but today I\u2019m just going to share six video clips in which Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O\u2019Donnell and their guests express their views.&#160; Finally there is a summery of the Republican Plan.&#160; I\u2019d also like you to have to have an opportunity to do something that no <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/15\/reactions-to-the-iran-deal\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}