Given the recent Iranian tirade against the United States and President Obama, this should disturb us:
US President Barack Obama has already used experts within the last few months to hold high-level but discreet talks with both Iran and Syria, organizers of the meetings told AFP.
Officially, Obama’s overtures toward both Tehran and Damascus have remained limited.
In an interview broadcast Monday, Obama said the United States would offer arch-foe Iran an extended hand of diplomacy if the Islamic Republic’s leaders “unclenched their fist.”
If the response to “months” of high level, but discreet, contacts between Obama and Iran is hate-filled rant by the “President” of Iran directed against the United States and President Obama, then we’re seeing the Iranians having a perception of weakness on the part of the new US Administration. I hope President Obama is paying close attention here – be nice and show that you are willing to meet the Iranians on the level, and the response is to pour sh** all over the United States and demand we truckle to them. What the tyrants who run Iran are waiting for, now, is to see whether or not President Obama will show patience (which they’ll perceive as weakness, and thus become more outrageous in their behavior as they test to see how far they can go), or whether he’ll show some teeth to the Iranians.
Iran is in an extraordinarily difficult situation – oil prices in the tank, economy in shambles, surrounded by American power, under threat of severe attack by Israeli forces – and Obama can easily let the Iranians know that we won’t tolerate any nonsense from them. Or, Obama can try to be “big” about it and, like a string of liberals past, ignore the Iranian provocation…thus ensuring there will be more, and worse, to come…
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