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16 Jul 2008 03:27 pm
Are Bush and Obama Converging On Iran?
The news that an American official, William J. Burns, the under secretary of state for political affairs, will attend a meeting led by Javier Solana, the European Union foreign policy chief, and Saeed Jalili, Iran’s nuclear negotiator, seems to me to be big news:
First, the Bush administration has decided to abandon its
longstanding position that it will only meet face-to-face with Iran
after it first suspends uranium enrichment as demanded by the United Nations Security Council.
Second,
it infuses the negotiating track between Iran on the one side and the
six global powers — France, Britain, Germany, Russia, China and the
United States — on the other with new importance, even though their
official stance is that no substantive talks can begin until the
uranium enrichment stops.
It's remarkable how much convergence is happening right now - most of it good news.
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