[Peace-discuss] Twelve Steps To Improve Relations with Iran

[Robert Naiman]

In response to President Obama's Nowruz overture, Iranian officials
said: words are nice, but that what Iran is looking for is concrete
changes in U.S. policy. Remarkably, such Iranian statements were
presented in much of the U.S. press as evidence that Iranian officials
aren't interested in improving relations. Another interpretation is at
least plausible: Iran is looking for concrete changes in U.S. policy.

Treating a request for changes as an insult would make sense if we
agree to assume that the U.S. is congenitally incapable of making
concrete changes in U.S. policy towards Iran. But of course, that's
not true at all. On the contrary, the U.S. finds itself like a kid in
a candy store, confronted by so many choices for concrete policy
changes to improve relations with Iran that one hardly knows where to
begin. Here, by way of example, are twelve steps the U.S. could take
to improve relations.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/twelve-steps-to-improve-r_b_180974.html

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/3/30/181548/848

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Robert Naiman
Just Foreign Policy
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