{"id":3643,"date":"2015-03-27T22:35:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T02:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/03\/27\/america-must-understand-iran\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T18:16:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T23:16:39","slug":"america-must-understand-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/america-must-understand-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"America must understand Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/akan-malici.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17224 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/akan-malici.jpg\" alt=\"akan-malici\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/240;\" \/><\/a>More than 30 years ago the leading Iran historian James Bill argued, \u201cAmerica knows astonishingly little about Iran.\u201d Unfortunately, we still have many things wrong. Contrary to conventional assumptions, Iranian foreign policy is not made by irrational clerics. Iranians are not seeking a nuclear program with offensive motivations. In an op-ed for <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/contributors\/2015\/03\/21\/america-must-understand-irans-strategic-importance\/25098957\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Furman political science professor Akan Malici writes that fear-mongering is not a substitute for facts and a sober understanding of the situation America is facing with Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 30 years ago the leading Iran historian James Bill argued, \u201cAmerica knows astonishingly little about Iran.\u201d Unfortunately, we still have many things wrong. Contrary to conventional assumptions, Iranian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}