Expediting US talks with Iran
Boston .com / Dr. Fatemeh Haghighatjoo
12-Mar-2009 (one comment)

WHILE IT IS likely that Iran-US talks over Iran's nuclear development program will commence without preconditions, as President Obama has promised, the question is when. It should be soon.Iran is eager to enter negotiations that would address a diverse range of both nations' interests and would be comprehensive - including Iran's nuclear development program and the Middle East peace process.

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Iranian regime mastering of two qualities

by Majid Saatchi (not verified) on Thu Mar 12, 2009 09:37 AM PDT

After 30 years of dealing with the United States and Europe, the Iranian regime has mastered two qualities: How to achieve objectives by bullying and blackmail; and, how to recycle its political refuse and reuse it in the US.

There is not much new to comment on regarding three decades of blackmail. The history speaks for itself: The US embassy hostage taking, a decade of hostage trading in Lebanon, kidnapping the Middle East peace process in the 1990s and finally, with the fall of Saddam Hussein and the weakening of Palestinian authority, using the regional stability as a bargain chip.

Mohammad Khatami's recent candidacy for presidency illustrates Mullahs masterful art in selling an archaic political system as an example of good governance and indigenous democracy. The United States has been so far one of the prime consumers of this Iranian "democratic" masquerade.


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