Secretary of Defense Gates sent a memo about Iran back in January, which may or may not have a been a “wake up call” for US policy on Iran.
But what is the policy? Lots of sanctions, no bilateral dialogue, vague threats of military strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, very little international consensus.
Sooner or later, the US will have to sit down with Iran bilaterally and cut a deal. This is clearly what the Russians and Chinese want us to do.
Equally, we’ve got to have a much more coherent policy on nuclear proliferation. You can’t expect anything much on the proliferation issue so long as there’s a different standard for Iran than there is for Israel, Pakistan, India and a host of other countries.
Gorilla says: “Nothing new, nothing serious and nothing to see here!”
Tags: Iran, Robert Gates