{"id":4019,"date":"2024-11-15T11:17:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T16:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=4019"},"modified":"2024-11-15T11:17:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T16:17:56","slug":"musk-secretly-met-with-irans-un-ambassador-raising-hopes-trump-will-keep-hawks-at-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=4019","title":{"rendered":"<h3><b>Musk Secretly Met With Iran&#8217;s UN Ambassador, Raising Hopes Trump Will Keep Hawks At Bay<\/b><\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/musk-secretly-met-irans-un-ambassador-raising-hopes-trump-will-keep-hawks-bay\">READ HERE:<\/a><\/strong> In the latest surprising development accompanying Donald Trump&#8217;s return to the presidency, the <em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0has reported that Trump advisor\u00a0<strong>Elon Musk quietly met with Iran&#8217;s United Nations ambassador on Monday to discuss how the United States and Iran might ease tensions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>News of Musk&#8217;s peace-seeking overture came after\u00a0<strong>Trump caused widespread dismay among America-First conservatives and libertarians by nominating an assortment of anti-Iran hawks and\u00a0zealous backers of the State of Israel<\/strong>\u00a0to important foreign policy and national security positions. Those selectees included Sen. Marco\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/trump-expected-tap-interventionist-neocon-rubio-secretary-state\">Rubio for Secretary of State<\/a>, Fox News host Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense, and New York Representative and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/12\/11\/politics\/elise-stefanik-antisemitism-hearing\/index.html\">campus speech-policer<\/a>\u00a0Elise Stefanik for UN ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>Given Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/commentary\/benjamin-netanyahu-pushing-war-iran\">Netanyahu&#8217;s long-held ambition<\/a>\u00a0to enmesh America in a war with Iran, Trump&#8217;s decision to surround himself with extreme advocates for Israel dampened hopes that he would make good on his campaign pledge to bring peace to a long-smoldering Middle East that&#8217;s been ravaged by escalating and widening warfare since the Oct. 7 2023 Hamas invasion of southern Israel. However,\u00a0<strong>the revelation of Musk&#8217;s meeting with Iranian UN\u00a0Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani bolstered hopes of an earnest Trump pursuit of &#8220;peace through strength.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}