US Policy on Iran’s Nuclear Programmer

How much that diplomatic calculation has changed in Bush’s second term, it showed in President George w. Bush’s speech to U.N. General Assembly. War is no longer a viable option, as the USA ensnarled in an increasingly difficult campaign in Iraq. The US administration is struggling with the difficult and messy business of diplomacy instead. That often means accommodating the interests and demands of other countries even backtracking on what had been firm positions. The US has muddied what were once clear lines in pursuit of diplomacy, slowly but surely.

The administration firmly demanded that Iran must first suspend its nuclear activities before the US would join negotiations on the nuclear programs, as recently as a month ago. But now US official have quietly acquiesced in Europe led efforts to find a face saving way for takes to begin.

Bush in his speech used notably mild language when he discussed Iran, suggesting that the two countries one day will ‘’be good friends and close partners in the cause of peace.’’ He emphasized that US officials have no objection to Iran’s pursuit of a truly peaceful nuclear power program.’’ This is a reversal from policy in first term when US officials loudly proclaimed that a with such vast oil and gas reserves had no need for a nuclear program. As of now US allies balking negotiations appear more likely than punishment.

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