In a taped interview with NPR, President Obama has said he does not rule out reopening the US Embassy in Tehran before the end of his term in office. The embassy closed in 1979, during a hostage crisis in the wake of the Iranian Revolution.
Obama went on to say Iran had a chance to “get right with the world,” though he provided only vague references to the nuclear talks in detailing what all would be involved with this.
Obama went on to accuse Iran of “adventurism” for its involvement abroad, though apart from being invaded by Iraq in 1980, the primary overseas entanglement for Iran since the revolution has been backing Iraq and Syria in the ISIS war, a conflict the US is also involved in, on the exact same side.
The ISIS war has put the US and Iran on better terms in recent months, though Obama complained Iranian hardliners are still opposed to rapprochement with the US. Similarly, though unmentioned by the president, the incoming US Senate seeks new sanctions against Iran explicitly to ruin the ongoing nuclear negotiations.
Holly heck! netenyahoo and his neocon zombies must be having hysteric aneurysms about now. Who from the israeli embassy approved this!!!
Now that would be a major breakthrough. Forget that miserable Castro island, this is the real deal. Do it Obama. Maybe, he'll have wait for someone to release the Panetta torture report, but still.
Empire USA — Who can stand the stench of it?
The new President of Iran is pure Western loving and profit worshiping corruption, he not saying a word about all the Empire expansion and bomb explosions that maximize profit for our corporate rich.
Surely, Iran should be in full support of the Islamic State, both nations being Muslim with the identical moral values, both nations that the U.S. military will someday invade and carpet bomb until all infrastructure and oil pumps are flat to the ground.
Don't quite get your choice of that Obama stock photo Jason?
No wait, the truth is that most of the audience on antiwar.com are too smart to buy into any stock photos. They understand the purpose is always a phony one.
Because Obama is a clown, what's not to get?
Iarn has not invaded another country in over 400 years! How many countries has the US invaded in the past 50 years?
"I[ra]n has not invaded another country in over 400 years!"
Might want to check your math there. The Iranian invasion of Iraq in January of 1975 was less than 1/10th that long ago.