The U.S. has never been good at making sense of Tehran's knotty power structure, and the distrust is mutual: many in Iran suspect that the U.S. is looking for an excuse to attack their nation, as it did Iraq. Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
Very weak story, lending credence to Israeli propaganda line that Iran has a covert scheme to develop nuclear weapons, when there is no evidence of this. The story lauds the approach taken by Dennis Ross, who is seen by some very well informed observers as the representative of the Israeli militarists rather than the US.
Ross was an appalling choice to serve in the role given him, and Obama may have placated Aipac by choosing him but undermined his own best chances to achieve rapprochement with Iran. Obama should tell Israel not even to consider attacking Iran. The head of the IAEA thinks Iran has no secret program to develop nuclear weapons, and talk of war is dangerous and essentially idiotic (comparable to the insanity that took the US into the Iraq War).