The Making of an Iran Policy
Cohen, Roger
New York Times Magazine, August 2, 2009, pp36-44
"The Obama administration [...] had been deliberately agnostic on the election outcome and had tried to finesse electoral uncertainty by directing its diplomatic overture chiefly at Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader. [...] The administration was geared to bring its engagement policy to fruition after the June 12 election. The two things it had not planned for, however, were a situation of near-insurrection and Khamenei’s shift out of the arbiter’s lofty cover into explicit alignment with Ahmadinejad." Roger Cohen comments on the Obama Administration's struggle with its biggest diplomatic challenge.
Roger Cohen is a columnist for the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune.
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