Friday, February 6, 2009
US must rethink policies for reconciliation
Currently ,the U.S is becoming more concerned about Iran’s nuclear program which Obama fears is being used to develop atomic weapons. However, Iran has claimed that its aims are not at all like that, they are strictly peaceful. In response to this concern, the U.S. administration told iran that they will only make negotiations with iran if they reached a settlement for this nuclear crisis. Iranian parliamentary speaker responded that "In the past years, the U.S. has burned many bridges but the new White House can rebuild them" if it "accepts its mistakes and changes its policies,". He condemned Washington's backing for Iraq in its 1980s war against Iran and its support of Israel by stating that the policies put upon them failed to root out terrorism. Many say that President Obama is “stretching out a hand if Iran would unclench its fist” but it seems to me that this reconciliation is going to take a long time since it seems like neither of them trust each other.
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I don't think it is even possible to get Iran to not build atomic weapons at this point no matter how many bridges he wants to rebuild
I don't think Iran is going to convince anyone that its nuclear program is "strictly peaceful." That's an oxymoron. Obama is doing the right thing by being cautious about Iran, but bridges do need to be mended. We aren't going to get peace in the Middle East until Iran becomes a friend. However, I do think Obama is being a bit too optimistic concerning his plans for Iran; you can't rebuild bridges overnight. We need to figure out what exactly Iran means by its "nuclear program" and hopefully we don't find anymore "weapons of mass destruction." We can't possibly pay for another Iraq war.
Jesse, I disagree with you. I think that at this point in time, is seems impossible to have Iran backtrack on its nuclear power program. Because of the social and economic problems in Iran now paired with the political problems and it's isolation from the west, the Iranians feel as though it is necessary to have this program in place.
However, I think that if President Obama can successfully and diplomatically push for agreements between Washington and Tehran and rebuild the damaged relations between our two countries as well as with the rest of the world, the Iranians might have no need for nuclear power. If President Ahmedinejad loses this election and a more progressive, tolerant leader is put in power, I think Iran's full potential as a positive contributor to society will be revealed and the people will reconsider their nuclear power program.
I think that with everything that's going on in America right now that Obama has to deal with, adding this to his stack right now would just be really hard, because we're all having problems, but I really think that in the future, things might be able to get better because Obama really seems to want to make them that way. And while I agree with Doria's hope that the next Iranian president will be more tolerant and progressive, but the most important fact is the candidature of the aspiring candidates must be approved by Council of Guardians consisting of 12 members, most of who are old religious men that look for people that go the way they want them too.
~Kimiya Bahmanyar
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