More evidence that Iran is not crazy
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 1:16AM ARTICLE: Some See Iran as Ready for Nuclear Deal, By MICHAEL SLACKMAN, New York Times, October 14, 2009
This, I find reasonable in its analysis:
"If the Iranian endgame is to keep enrichment, and if the United States' endgame is to make sure there are no nuclear weapons in Iran, then it can be a win-win," said Trita Parsi, author of a book on Iran and president of the National Iranian American Council, an independent advocacy group in Washington.
Has been a long-time staple in my brief: the logic of Iran going right up to the point of weaponizing and then stopping--a la Japan.
It is a cake-and-eat-it-too outcome.
Will Israel care for such ambiguity? No. But then again, it's played the same game for decades about its none-too-small nuclear arsenal.
Ah, but Iran is "crazy," right? Except that Tehran games the system quite nicely on this subject, showing some genuine strategic skill.
The real goal all along has been the same: just enough effort to create a nuclear deterrence situation with the U.S. Israel has never been the issue, just the diversion.
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