The editorial “Talking to Tehran” (Sept.30) is correct when it states that U.S. dialogue with Iran is preferable to military action or harsher sanctions against them. Iran is not a threat to our national interest, and we should be negotiating and trading with them, not threatening them.
All of the hostility toward Iran comes from one source : Israel and its powerful lobby. We cannot allow the same warmongering, pro-Israel neocons to manipulate us into a war with Iran, the same way they got us into Iraq.
Instead of giving a timeline to Iran, we should be telling Israel either to end their occupation and oppression of the Palestinians or we cut off all aid to Israel: financial, military and political. It is this occupation that is the root cause of the violence in the Middle East, and we should not be supporting it.
