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...raise tensions further. The experience of the Bush Administration shows that the combination of sanctions and rhetoric about regime change - remember the "Axis of Evil?" - helped strengthen the hands of Iran's hard-liners. It vindicated Tehran's paranoia and reduced options available to the U.S. If the Iranian regime thinks that the real aim of U.S. policy is to topple it, it is hardly likely to make the conciliatory policy changes - for example, on its nuclear program - that the U.S. seeks...
Under these circumstances, the embattled Iranian government is unable to set a new course for its foreign policy. In a state of paralysis, Iran's behavior is primarily driven by two forces: bureaucratic inertia and a willingness to take only those decisions that are deemed low-risk within Iran's internal political context. That does not include compromise with Washington and the International Atomic Energy Agency on the nuclear issue. From the Iran-Contra scandal onwards, Iran's history is ripe with examples of Iranian politicians losing their careers after trying to create an opening to the U.S. Iran...
...here is the central dilemma of Iranian policy: Iran's greens need time, but Washington does not seem to think it can afford to wait. While patience is underrated in the U.S. political culture, impatience carries a much greater risk when dealing with a country currently prone to escalation. The tragedy of yet another war in the Middle East is something America simply cannot afford. Waiting for something to change is hard for Americans. But on Iran, that is what they should...
...Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, won the 2010 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order...
...coups and revolutions around the world, survived firing squads in Africa and befriended the likes of Che Guevara. His reporting formed the basis for widely acclaimed books such as The Emperor, about the life of the eccentric Ethiopian leader Haile Selassie; Shah of Shahs, about the fall of the Iranian ruler Reza Pahlavi; and Imperium, on the last days of the Soviet Union. Salman Rushdie once said of Kapuscinski, "He is worth a thousand whimpering and fantasizing scribblers...