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Palin will love this: Bush to open diplomatic post in Iran


From McClatchy:

The Bush administration will announce in mid-November, after the presidential election, that it intends to establish the first U.S. diplomatic presence in Iran since the 1979-81 hostage crisis, according to senior Bush administration officials.

The proposal for an “interests section,” which falls short of a full U.S. Embassy, has been conveyed in private diplomatic messages to Tehran, and a search is under way to choose the American diplomat who’d head the post, the officials said.

They spoke on condition of anonymity because the step hasn’t been announced and discussions of it have been limited to a small circle of government officials.

The McCain-Palin campaign has voiced adamant opposition to talking with Iran and has criticized Obama as being “dangerous” and “naive” for suggesting that he might.

Meanwhile, remember, Henry Kissinger has suggested this action just last month.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:00 am October 24th, 2008 in Barack Obama, Foreign Affairs, George Bush, John McCain, Politics, Vice President, WH2008 

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2 Responses to “Palin will love this: Bush to open diplomatic post in Iran”

  1. 1 oengus on October 24th, 2008 11:41 am

    Requires fluency in Farsi…suppose that will escape them or they will be afraid that a person that can speak Farsi may be at risk of understanding them?

  2. 2 Daniel Jack Williamson on October 24th, 2008 2:39 pm

    The Obama camp has tried to confuse the issue. During the primaries, Obama said he’d meet, at the presidential level, with our enemies with no preconditions. Every Democrat primary opponent said Obama was wrong. Obama stayed with that message until he won the primaries. Since then, his campaign is deliberately fuzzying the message in two ways: using the word “preparations” instead of “preconditions” and devolving the level of talks from the presidential level to talks at lower levels. The Democrats in the primaries favored talks at lower levels, so does McCain, so do all the living former Secretaries of State. Talking to Iran is not contrary to McCain-Palin policy. Talking to Iran on the presidential level without preconditions what Obama advocated for, and that’s downright dangerous, as I explained fully in a blog entry at Buckeye RINO titled “Irked by Obama.”

    http://buckeyerino.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/irked-by-obama/

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