June 17th, 2008 by Sarah
How can we best sytmie the Iranian threat?
Barbara Slavin at the National Interest Online suggests building toward diplomacy and questions why Bush did not send an American representative with the other foreign diplomats that joined the E.U. to present its incentive package. “Sending an American to Tehran with Solana might not have resulted in a breakthrough but it could have laid the groundwork for one.”
Trita Parsi at Foreign Policy’s blog recommends quelling the Iranian threat by arranging their strategic interests in opposition to their ideological ones.“Iran’s hostile rhetoric [toward Israel] is more a product of opportunism than fanaticism. Iran and Israel have even been willing to work together quietly at times, despite their conflicting ideologies.”
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