[Peace-discuss] Fw: Today: Top Experts Support Direct Diplomacy with Iran

Tue Nov 18 22:06:29 CST 2008

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 --Jenifer

--- On Tue, 11/18/08, Just Foreign Policy <info at justforeignpolicy.org> wrote:

From: Just Foreign Policy <info at justforeignpolicy.org>
Subject: Today: Top Experts Support Direct Diplomacy with Iran
To: "Jenifer Cartwright" <jencart13 at yahoo.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 8:06 AM

Today: Top Experts Support Direct Diplomacy with Iran

Dear Jenifer,
We have been working hard to advocate for direct diplomacy with Iran, and none of it would have been possible without you. So we wanted you to be among the first to hear about a groundbreaking report that proposes a new direction for U.S.-Iran relations. 
Today, Just Foreign Policy, along with a group of top scholars, experts, and diplomats, will release a Joint Experts' Statement on Iran that outlines five steps the U.S. should take to promote a new relationship with Iran. Former Ambassadors Thomas Pickering and James Dobbins, Columbia University scholar Gary Sick, and 17 other experts all agree that the current U.S. policy of isolation, military threats and sanctions will not work with Iran and instead call for a new strategy involving “direct, unconditional and comprehensive negotiations at the senior diplomatic level.” 
The statement has already grabbed the media’s attention – and, with your help, it is destined to make a stir in Washington.  Can you help spread the word by telling your Members of Congress about this new report?
www.justforeignpolicy.org/involved/iran 
You can read more about the statement below or you can see the full text here.

With the election of Barack Obama, we have an opportunity to change our stance towards Iran. America has voted for change, now give your Members of Congress the tools to fight for it: let them know about this statement and urge them to support direct diplomacy with Iran without preconditions. 

www.justforeignpolicy.org/involved/iran 

Thanks for all you do for a just foreign policy,

Megan Iorio, Chelsea Mozen, Sarah Burns, and Robert Naiman
Just Foreign Policy

Please help us get out the message.  Your support, no matter how much, will go a long way: 
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/donate.html 

Or write a letter to the editor of your paper in support of the report: 
www.justforeignpolicy.org/involved/iran_letter  

Supporting information: 

1. The Joint Experts' Statement on Iran can be found online here:
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/experts.pdf

The statement suggests a five-step strategy that the US should implement in order to effectively deal with Iran on a diplomatic level: 

1. Replace calls for regime change with a long-term strategy.
2. Support human rights through effective, international means.
3. Allow Iran a place at the table – along with other key states – in shaping the future of Iraq, Afghanistan, and the rest of the region.
4. Address the nuclear issue within the context of a broader US-Iran opening.
5. Re-energize the Arab-Israeli peace process and act as an honest broker in that process.

2. “Threats Won’t Tame Iran, Experts Say”, Barry Schweid, Associated Press, 11/13/08

3. For Obama’s professed strategy for dealing with Iran:
http://origin.barackobama.com/issues/foreign_policy/#iran

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