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NIAC In the News: The Next President’s Iran Dilemma |
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Written by Chris Toensing
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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
At a deeper level, there is an inability or unwillingness to transcend
what Trita Parsi of the National Iranian American Council calls the
“paradigm of enmity” between the two countries. This durable paradigm,
forged in the heat of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the ensuing
hostage crisis, has made bashing Iran a cost-free activity for
generations of American politicians of both parties, even in the years
between 1997 and 2004, when reformist clerics in Tehran sought an
opening to the West. It explains why the Bush administration spurned
Tehran’s offer in 2003 to convene direct bilateral talks on all
outstanding grievances. Read full analysis.
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