“The changed geopolitical map of the Middle East and the massive projection of US power on Iran’s periphery have led a critical segment of Iran’s right to reconsider the value of a rational relationship with America,” Ray Takeyh, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, writes in today’s International Herald Tribune.
“Iran's emerging pragmatists are well aware that the current state of US-Iranian relations inhibits Iran's economic development, as investors are loath to send capital to a country that might become a potential war zone… If Washington wants a meaningful dialogue with Iran, it will find receptive interlocutors,” he adds.
