This article is very accurate and true. Iran doesn’t want to talk, they view themselves as strong and America as weak. They correctly view Obama’s outreach as a sign of weakness.
U.S. Engagement of Iran Is Futile
However, engaging Iran will turn out to be an outdrawn process with no positive outcomes for either the U.S. or the international community. Such a process will only serve the interests of the theocracy in Tehran. This is a warranted prediction given previous attempts by the U.S. to engage Tehran. The first Bush administration attempted to reach out to the “pragmatic” Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani. The Clinton administration pursued a policy of rapprochement with Tehran when Mohammad Khatami, the “reformist,” was president. None of those efforts bored fruit. Even during the second term of the previous administration, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tried, on a number of occasions, to reach out to Tehran – but with no result.
We need to pressure and destabilize Iran. There are people there who oppose the government and we should support them. Iran isn’t that strong, its strenght is the support it recieves from Leftist politicians and the Western Media. We need to treat them as the joke of a nation they are.
