Monday, March 05, 2007

Time for Iranians to engage Iranians

NCF Senior Fellow, Jonathan Paris, wrote this together with NCF member Nazenin Ansari. Ambassador Hambley describes it as a "good and timely intervention".

Sunday's Baltimore Sun oped: Time for Iranians to engage Iranians - By Nazenin Ansari and Jonathan Paris - Originally published March 4, 2007 -

To engage or attack? This is the question gripping pundits on U.S.-Iranian relations as the United Nations deadline for Iran's compliance on its nuclear program has come and gone, and as U.S. officials plan to take part in talks on Iraq's future that may include Iranian representatives.

The hawks dismiss the existence of a real internal Iranian resistance and lament that a war between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran has become inevitable. Like the hawks, the engagers reject the Iranian resistance as hopeless, but they propose that a policy of unconditional dialogue and sanctions relief will somehow empower Iranian society.

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