{"id":245,"date":"2012-03-04T01:12:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T01:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=245"},"modified":"2015-02-16T08:37:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T08:37:02","slug":"2012-03-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2012-03-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another War? Iran in the Crosshairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">Paul George<\/font><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">Mar. 4, 2012<\/font><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-252\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-252\" title=\"2012-03-04-(14)Speaker\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2012-03-04-14Speaker.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul George<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After a decade of war in the Middle East \u2014 wars that have cost the lives of thousands, and over a trillion dollars, wars that have left two foreign countries in shambles and our own flat broke \u2014 the drumbeats for yet another war in the region are beginning to syncopate our news. This time it\u2019s Iran that finds itself in the crosshairs. While the U. S. imposes crippling sanctions on Iran and moves massive firepower into the Persian Gulf, someone is assassinating Iran\u2019s nuclear scientists and sabotaging its facilities. In response, Iran has vowed to choke off one of the world\u2019s critical oil supply routes. What are the possibilities of war with Iran? What are the likely consequences? And why on earth are we even thinking about another war right now?\u00a0 Paul George, Director of the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center, will discuss these issues.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/49217061\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/49217061\">Humanist Community Forum (2012-03-04): Yet Another War? Iran in the Crosshairs (Paul George)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul George Mar. 4, 2012 After a decade of war in the Middle East \u2014 wars that have cost the lives of thousands, and over a trillion dollars, wars that have left two foreign countries in shambles and our own flat broke \u2014 the drumbeats for yet another war in the region are beginning to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2012-03-04\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yet Another War? Iran in the Crosshairs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7499,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/7499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}