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Last week, President Barack Obama reminded the Iranian government of his end-of-the-year deadline for Iran to enter negotiations regarding its nuclear program, and the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors passed a resolution calling on Iran to suspend its nuclear activities. The Iranian regime responded to these overtures with a flat rejection and an aggressive promise to build an additional 10 enrichment plants. In response, the administration is reaching out to Russia, China, and our European allies to win support for tough new sanctions at the United Nations Security Council at the beginning...
...this context, the Harvard community is challenged to consider what role it might play in helping to avert an international crisis. Many of us were inspired this past spring by the pro-democracy rallies in Iran, many of which were initiated and directed by students and other Iranians of our generation. How might the Harvard community, a premier American university, stand up for the rights of those Iranian students who have risked their safety by challenging their own regime...
...right that the U.S. can't vanquish movements like Hizballah and the Taliban or even an embattled regime like Iran's. Legitimizing them, however, will be hard for some Americans to swallow. Already, hawks have slammed Obama for negotiating with Iran's mullahs while the blood of Iranian protesters is still fresh on their hands. And "reconciliation" with the Taliban, while necessary for the U.S.'s eventual withdrawal from Afghanistan, might be a horror show for Afghan women. It is worth noting that while many historians applaud Nixon's retreat from global containment, his decision to cozy up to dictators...
...Obama's narrower struggle against al-Qaeda, however, a cold war with Tehran makes little sense. For all its nastiness, the Iranian regime doesn't direct its terrorism against the U.S. And Iran's Shi'ite theocrats have a mostly hostile relationship with the anti-Shi'ite theocrats of al-Qaeda. In both Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran has caused trouble for the U.S. largely out of fear that if the U.S. prevails in those countries, Iran will be next. But the Obama Administration seems to believe that if the U.S. can convince Iran's regime that it's not next...
...Iranian cold war has shown some signs of a thaw, Tehran's continued defiance of world opinion on its nuclear program notwithstanding. Obama has begun the highest-level diplomatic engagement with Tehran in 30 years and refrained from calling for the overthrow of the regime, even amid mass Iranian protests last summer aimed at accomplishing exactly that. Media coverage of the diplomatic dance between Washington and Tehran focuses on Iran's nuclear program, but by pursuing a fundamentally different relationship with the Islamic Republic, the Obama Administration is also quietly conceding that Iran's militancy is different from the terrorism...