{"id":10143,"date":"2019-08-22T12:02:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T07:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/?p=10143"},"modified":"2021-01-22T01:09:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T21:39:42","slug":"amb-john-limbert-on-iran-and-the-u-s-policy-of-maximum-pressure-asieh-namdar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/10143","title":{"rendered":"Amb. John Limbert on Iran and the U.S. policy of maximum pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump Administration says it\u2019s maximum pressure campaign against Iran is working, and its leadership is weakening. Part of that campaign \u2013 includes abandoning the 2015 nuclear agreement \u2013 which president trump called \u201cthe worst deal ever.\u201d Since then, the U.S. has reimposed economic sanctions on Iran \u2013 and sanctioned its top diplomat, Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif.<br \/>\nOne veteran U.S. diplomat says sanctions are not the answer.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-10143-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/dlb.nejatngo.org\/Media\/Interview\/Limbert_Namdar_201908.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dlb.nejatngo.org\/Media\/Interview\/Limbert_Namdar_201908.mp4\">https:\/\/dlb.nejatngo.org\/Media\/Interview\/Limbert_Namdar_201908.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Asieh Namdar sat down with Ambassador John Limbert \u2013 who worked and lived in Iran \u2013 and was one of the 52 American Hostages taken captive at the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979.<br \/>\nThey discussed everything from the current US policy on Iran, the need for diplomacy, and his memories as a hostage 40 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More memories from John Limbert<\/strong><\/p>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" class=\"wp-image-10144 size-full\"src=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Limbert_John_2.jpg\"alt=\"\"width=\"540\"height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Limbert_John_2.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Limbert_John_2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/>\n<img width=\"540\" height=\"360\" class=\"wp-image-10145 size-full\"src=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Limbert_John_1.jpg\"alt=\"\"width=\"540\"height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Limbert_John_1.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Limbert_John_1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/>\n<img width=\"540\" height=\"360\" class=\"wp-image-10146 size-full\"src=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Limbert_John_3.jpg\"alt=\"\"width=\"540\"height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Limbert_John_3.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Limbert_John_3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/>\n<p>@asiehnamdar<br \/>\nAmerica.cgtn.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump Administration says it\u2019s maximum pressure campaign against Iran is working, and its leadership is weakening. Part of that campaign \u2013 includes abandoning the 2015 nuclear agreement \u2013 which&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[85,20],"module":[78],"ctype":[26],"blog":[109],"class_list":["post-10143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mujahedin-khalq-proxy-force","tag-mujahedin-khalq-terrorism","tag-third-view-mek","post_format-post-format-video","module-interview","ctype-videos","blog-western-bloggers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10143"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=10143"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=10143"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=10143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}