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We Hand Iran Victory
By Micah Halpern

Saturday December 24, 2005

I've Been Thinking:

We, the West, have handed Iran another great victory. We did it without knowing we were doing it. We did it because we do not understand the game Iran is playing.

Hussien Entezami, the spokesman for the Supreme National Security Council spoke about Iran's nuclear program and the resumption of talks between Iran and the European Union. This is what he had to say:

"The impasse over the nuclear file has been broken. From now on we sense a clear perspective for arriving at a compromise."

"the very fact that the dangerous process, which began with the resolution of September 24th, has stopped constitutes a diplomatic victory."

"But our principled position gave results and the Europeans agreed to return to the negotiating table without any preconditions. This constitutes a diplomatic success."

Iran's diplomatic success is a failure of the West.

Iran is controlling the discussion and the results.
The West is totally unaware of the issues or the stakes.
The West is duped by the lure of dialogue.

The West is so intent on realizing its agenda and attaining its own goals that no thought it given to the fact that Iran is seizing the opportunity and also attaining goals - and that is very dangerous.

4 June 2017 12:14 PM in Thoughts


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