02 January 2016
Obama’s Closing Strategy on Iran
U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry and Iranian Foreign
Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, showed that at least between them the common
interest of their two countries was best served by ignoring the idle threat of
former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to develop a nuclear weapon and
reaching a mutual accord that will return U.S.-Iran commercial relations to the
limited openness that prevailed in 2005.
President Barack Obama has apparently decided temporarily to disregard
Iran’s recent violation of international prohibitions on building ballistic
missiles in order not to jeopardize implementation of the nuclear deal. Together these steps are probably enough to
considerably relax restraints on trade between the two countries without formal
approval by either the U.S. Congress or the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. It is up to the electorate in each country,
which ultimately is credited with having final say in these matters, to make
these steps lasting.
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