http://washingtonindependent.com/48576/the-diplomatic-onus-is-placed-on-iran National News in Context Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:24:13 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://washingtonindependent.com/48576/the-diplomatic-onus-is-placed-on-iran/comment-page-1#comment-38835 a Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:59:11 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=48576#comment-38835 What is irrational about the regime stealing an election? Evidently they misjudged the amount of resistance there would be, but making a bad call doesn't mean you're irrational, and anyway as you acknowledge they're probably going to get away with it. What is irrational about the regime stealing an election? Evidently they misjudged the amount of resistance there would be, but making a bad call doesn't mean you're irrational, and anyway as you acknowledge they're probably going to get away with it.

]]> http://washingtonindependent.com/48576/the-diplomatic-onus-is-placed-on-iran/comment-page-1#comment-38758 How Bush Affects Iran « Hungry Hungry Hippos Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:55:03 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=48576#comment-38758 [...] Spencer Ackerman puts it thus: Does the administration and its allies then try to link human rights obligations to any nuclear deal, knowing that the regime won’t accept that, and thereby jeopardizing the prospect of keeping Iran free of nuclear weapons? (And that’s presuming that, say, China and Russia will accept that, which they probably won’t.) Or does it hold to its top priority of preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and implicitly grant the regime legitimacy? Right now, though, the administration’s construction at least buys it time to judge Iranian intentions — and decide whether a regime willing to so blatantly steal an election is really rational enough to hew to its international obligations. [...] [...] Spencer Ackerman puts it thus: Does the administration and its allies then try to link human rights obligations to any nuclear deal, knowing that the regime won’t accept that, and thereby jeopardizing the prospect of keeping Iran free of nuclear weapons? (And that’s presuming that, say, China and Russia will accept that, which they probably won’t.) Or does it hold to its top priority of preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and implicitly grant the regime legitimacy? Right now, though, the administration’s construction at least buys it time to judge Iranian intentions — and decide whether a regime willing to so blatantly steal an election is really rational enough to hew to its international obligations. [...]

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