Iran and the US: Frenemies, the Treacherous Tango, and Other Thoughts
Posted in Journal on Oct 19th, 2007
All sorts of things have me thinking about US-Iran relations lately. The other week I was on NPR’s Talk of the Nation discussing Ahmadinejad, and I realized (or perhaps a caller helped me realize), that because the Iranian president makes such spectacle of thumbing his nose at the US, it has become very easy to forget that as recently as 2003, it was Iran that was reaching out to the US, and it was Washington doing the nose thumbing.