{"id":27210,"date":"2010-11-29T08:24:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T06:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=27210"},"modified":"2014-01-05T22:47:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T20:47:06","slug":"us-warned-turkey-not-to-publicly-question-allegations-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/11\/29\/us-warned-turkey-not-to-publicly-question-allegations-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"US Warned Turkey Not to Publicly Question Allegations on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27212\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Recep-Tayyip-Erdogan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Recep-Tayyip-Erdogan.jpg 306w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Recep-Tayyip-Erdogan-279x300.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/>In late 2009 the Obama Administration, it was revealed today, privately warned the Turkish government not to criticize unsubstantiated allegations against Iran\u2019s civilian nuclear program, in particular warning that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s comments made Turkey \u201cvulnerable to international community criticism.<\/p>\n<p>The documents, revealed today as part of the WikiLeaks Cablegate release, centered around Prime Minister Erdogan\u2019s criticism of Obama\u2019s allegations as \u201cgossip,\u201d and advised top Erdogan aides and Turkish President Gul to \u201crein in\u201d the prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>Another document expressed concern at Turkey\u2019s interest in a working relationship with Iran, saying Turkey was missing an opportunity to weaken the Iranian government by not condemning the 2009 election and saying Turkey was motivated by a desire to avoid a region-wide war.<\/p>\n<p>Though US officials have repeatedly accused Iran of making nuclear weapons they have never provided evidence of this assertion, and the IAEA has continually verified the non-diversion of Iran\u2019s nuclear material.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the US mocked Turkey\u2019s claims of \u201cinfluence\u201d with Iran by saying Turkey was unable to even convince Iran to sign the third party enrichment deal sought by the P5+1. Just months after the cable Turkey did succeed in getting Iran to sign the deal, sparking public US condemnation of Turkey and a refusal by the US to complete the proposed deal.<\/p>\n<p>via US Warned Turkey Not to Publicly Question Allegations on Iran &#8212; News from Antiwar.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late 2009 the Obama Administration, it was revealed today, privately warned the Turkish government not to criticize unsubstantiated allegations against Iran\u2019s civilian nuclear program, in particular warning that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s comments made Turkey \u201cvulnerable to international community criticism. The documents, revealed today as part of the WikiLeaks Cablegate release, centered around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":27212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[4176],"class_list":["post-27210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran_","tag-nuclear-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}