.Missed opportunity for peace with Iran
"I'm watching an excellent Frontline special on Iran right now. Frontline interviewed many experts and key people, including Vali Nasr. The reformists in Iran, led by Mohammed Khatami, wanted to normalize relations with the US. Dubya basically gave Khatami and the reformists the cold shoulder and rejected a key peace offer in 2005. Washington apparently saw the reformists as politically weak and unable to deliver. This may have been Bush's biggest blunder in American relations with Iran.Actually I disagree. These so called reformers only pretend reforms. They only do so to keep up the appearance of reform they know all to well they have no power to affect, nor would they ever take the steps necessary to put real reforms in place. I think the Clinton years was the proof of that. Had they really wanted to move even a step forward, they had all the opportunity to do so. All they did was dance in place.
Watch the full program here."
Iraqi Mojo
posted by madtom at 8:36 PM
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Your characterization of the reformers is completely off-base. Those guys were serious, and they would have benefited big-time politically if they would have been able to normalize relations with the U.S. The reformers really are the good guys, and rebuffing them brought the hardliners back into power. Iran is not politically monolithic - it's a lot more complicated than you think.
...oh, and Clinton was as much of a tool as Bush has been when it comes to Iran.
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