Dialogue with Iran thing. Are not Diplomats paid to be "Diplomatic"?? Oh well the sad thing it gives religious fanatic Americans an outlet to vent their penchant for racism by disparaging their fairly elected President. Because all articles about "dialogue with Iran" are prefaced with some word referring to President Obama's administration - uh like we are all so stupid to believe the Bush Administration didn't carry on "Dialogue" get real only small minority of us are actually inept enough to believe that.

Don't wait for Khatami. See Lawrence Kohn in Midstream The New Russia and Iranian Moderates April 1999 or Hydra of Carnage Uri Ra'anan et. al for information on Khatami's role in creating terror infrastructure in Lebanon in the 1980s as minister of Cultural Guidance. Readers need to know about the KGB Farsi broadcasts in Baku supporting the Iranian revolution and KGB activity on the ground in assisting its success. They should learn how Brezhnev, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin all have assisted Iran uninterruptedly with conventional military weapons, missile technology and,or nuclear reactors. Russia does not fear Iran; Iran is a key client, its rook in the Middle East chess board. Russia's ally, China, has delivered cruise missiles to Iran and Russia sent part of the East German navy to Iran. Once upon a time the hardliner, Rafsanjani, was touted as a moderate but the game changed. The moderate Iranian leadership is window dressing. The real moderates are murdered or jailed; feminists, democratic trade unionists. Russia and China play at supporting the US and at key moments balk, delay, or dilute effective sanctions. The US needs to realize the strategic game and ally with Israel in stopping Iran; America's Arab friends with squawk but quietly breathe easier. Meanwhile Russia and China continuing modernizing their own nuclear weapons, Iran spreads deeper (so do Russia and China) into America's backyard in Latin America as the Mullahs move closer to sufficient uranium enrichment for a bomb.

In Iran the real decision maker is Supreme leader Khamenei............ http://www.cfr.org/publication/17608/

By seeking sanctions on Iran , you will cause a war in the world . The winner is surely not Israel