{"id":55497,"date":"2017-06-07T16:29:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T16:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55497"},"modified":"2017-06-07T16:37:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T16:37:10","slug":"gartenstein-ross-on-isis-and-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55497","title":{"rendered":"Gartenstein-Ross on ISIS and Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; sometimes a flurry of tweets can be the thing itself &#8212; see also today <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55491\">Michael Kenney on al-Muhajiroun<\/a> ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Here you go &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaveedGR\/status\/872485890551107584\"><strong>Daveed<\/strong><\/a> as recommended by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhillipSmyth\/status\/872486266603843584\"><strong>Phillip Smyth<\/strong><\/a> just now: today <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Assuming that ISIS was behind the Tehran attack, as it has claimed, I have a few observations.<\/p>\n<p>1) Attacking Iran differentiates ISIS from al-Qaeda. AQ has probably wouldn&#8217;t attack Iran due to the contours of the AQ\/Iran relationship. Similarly, ISIS propagandized against the Taliban by arguing that they wouldn&#8217;t fight Pakistan, while ISIS was killing Pakistani soldiers. So there&#8217;s an obvious propaganda play ISIS can make here for a Sunni audience, parallel to its earlier Pakistan propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>2) Iran is at the forefront of pushing ISIS&#8217;s caliphate back. So this is similar to other ISIS attacks against coalition countries. Nor is it clear that ISIS is concerned about provoking Iran: They already have provoked Iran. It&#8217;s fighting them on the ground now.<\/p>\n<p>3) Wild card possibility: Unlikely, but could ISIS be making a play for Sunni state support, similar to what al-Qaeda gets? There are various reasons that I would bet against this, but I would put it on the table as a possibility, however remote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; sometimes a flurry of tweets can be the thing itself &#8212; see also today Michael Kenney on al-Muhajiroun ] . Here you go &#8212; Daveed as recommended by Phillip Smyth just now: today Assuming that ISIS was behind the Tehran attack, as it has claimed, I have a few observations. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,770,93,1078,1047,393,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-daveed-gartenstein-ross","category-iran","category-is","category-isis","category-twitter","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55499,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55497\/revisions\/55499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}