Analysis: The U.S. has a smart and farsighted policy for dealing with the Iranian regime. But it also has a problem.
Ahmed Charai, a Moroccan publisher, is on the board directors of the Atlantic Council and an international counselor of the Center for a Strategic and International Studies in Washington.President Donald Trump’s surprise overnight decision to hit Iran with missiles, then call off the strike, has only added fuel to a narrative surrounding the U.S. policy on Iran over the past two years: That America simply doesn’t have a coherent strategy to fight one of its most intransigent adversaries.
This scheme by Iran and Russia is working, in part, because of domestic U.S. politics, in which the present hyperpolarization prevents the country from implementing a unified response to the Iranian challenge. As if in unwitting conformity to a script of U.S. adversaries’ devising, serious discussion of threats abroad can break down into partisan mudslinging and even deteriorate into conspiracy theories of false flag operations—something all too familiar to Middle Eastern ears.
As for the warmonger charge, a closer examination of recent events on the ground indicates that indirect U.S.-Iranian negotiations are already underway and have been for some time. Although the U.S. formally rejected Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif’s April proposal for negotiations over a prisoner exchange deal, U.S. permanent resident Nazar Zaka, detained by Iran since November 2015, wason June 10—apparently the outcome of a private settlement.
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