Ahmadinejad Re-elected: Israel and Obama’s Iran Puzzle
by Ramzy Baroud / June 22nd, 2009 (0)
The election victory of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is likely to complicate US President Barack Obama’s new approach to his country’s conflict with Iran. The reason behind the foreseen obstacle is neither the US nor Iran’s refusal to engage in future dialogue but rather Israel’s insistence on a hard-line approach to the problem.
Iran’s presidential elections on June 12 were positioned to represent another fight between Middle Eastern ‘moderates’ vs. ‘extremists’. That depiction, which conveniently divided the Middle East — according to the prevailing US foreign policy discourse — to pro-American and anti-American camps was hardly as clear in the Iranian …
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http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/06/ahmadinejad-re-elected-israel-and-obama%E2%80%99s-iran-puzzle/
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