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To: Ruffian who wrote (249925)	11/28/2007 2:49:16 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

"Trita Parsi, author of Treacherous Alliance - The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the U.S., believes that even Iran could be persuaded to play a more constructive role - albeit at the price of accepting its expanding influence in the region. "Excluding Iran from regional diplomacy fuels rather than diminishes Tehran's propensity to act the spoiler," says Parsi. Noting that Iran attended U.S.-initiated international conferences on Afghanistan and Iraq, Parsi says Iran's bluff should have been called by inviting it to attend Annapolis, too. "If Iran declined and the rest of the region attended, then the U.S. would still look good," says Parsi. "If Iran accepted, then significant foreign policy changes could be demanded from Iran."" Do you agree? US seems more interested in splitting syria off from iran, than engaging iran. I would argue syria is a miscreant regime, recently dealing in underhanded fashion with North Korea. Getting persia to buy into peace between israel and palestine is more important than promising golan back to syria for attending a peace contribution while making no contribution. Nadine will tell you iran is evil, listen to what they say and what the original ayotolla said etc. I think iran is looking for the recognition of their status as great regional power. They dont need nukes to be that but our isolation of them leads them down this road as well as rejectionist road re peace in i/p. What do we have to lose by testing them? If nadine is right we will know soon enough. NK is the worst regime since stalin and mao in the early 50s and now we are making peace with them. If we can deal with iran and separate them from the evil we cannot negotiate with (al queda), we will have done a good thing. We should treat them with a little respect and treat islam with some respect and save our emnity for bin laden and his gang.