When Silence Is Hardly Golden by Henry Precht

Published on October 1st, 2013 | http://www.lobelog.com/when-silence-is-hardly-golden/#more-21256

When Silence Is Hardly Golden

by Henry Precht
The recent telephone conversation between Presidents Obama and Rouhani — and their positive descriptions of the exchange – are precisely on target for bringing an end to the Iran-US Cold War.
Distrust has been the background noise for that conflict for more than 35 years. It need not have been so.