By
Joseph
Klein
Three
days after being snubbed at the United Nations by Iranian President Hassan
Rouhani, President Obama made a hurriedly arranged telephone call to Rouhani
last Friday as the Iranian president was heading to the airport to return to
Tehran. This followed what Secretary of State John Kerry had described as
his own “constructive” meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad
Zarif the previous day. Obama
couldn’t wait to tell reporters after his call with Rouhani how optimistic
he was at the prospect of new talks with Iran over its nuclear program. Obama’s
problem is that there is no real new leadership in Tehran, only a new
figurehead. The real leader remains Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei. He isn’t
called Iran’s “supreme leader” for nothing. He is the ultimate decision-maker
on the future of Iran’s nuclear program and on any rapprochement with the
United States. [more...]
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