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Subject CFR: Obama Changes Iran Policy - Gives up on Negotiating.

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Original Message What needs to be addressed is the disturbing reality that the Obama administration's approach offers no viable endgame for dealing with Iran's current leadership.

By embracing maximalist measures, the White House has come full circle, abandoning, along the way, its earlier optimistic efforts at engagement.

In doing so, it has implicitly relinquished the prospect of negotiating with the Islamic regime: given the ayatollahs' innate mistrust of the West, they cannot be nudged into a constructive negotiating process by measures that exacerbate their vulnerability.

American policy is now effectively predicated on achieving political change in Tehran.

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