Trita Parsi has delivered a sound analysis and pinpoints the precise problems that the United States faces when trying to deal constructively with Iran... and vice versa. Unfortunately, the situation has little promise of being resolved anytime soon.
Back in 2008, when Barack Obama was campaigning to be the 44th President of the United States, he made a solid commitment to engage with his nation's adversaries and enemies if and when he was elected to office. Diplomacy was the new way forward in dealing with the Iranian conundrum and it worked, at least at first. Obama was to find himself facing opposition from all angles, forcing through another series of sanctions against the nation he was originally aiming to create dialogue with.
This is a short but detailed book, Trita Parsi presents an easily readable account of where Obama failed in his diplomacy with Iran. A bright start was ultimately flawed by indecision, mistrust, domestic opposition (in Iran also), a lack of political will towards warmer relations, fraudulent elections and duplicitous allies reheating old ideas. And that is where Parsi hits the nail on the head; a lack of political will in both the United States and Iran to engage in diplomacy and revert to the reassuring feeling of entrenched animosity, dominated this latest attempt to end thirty years of distrust between the United States and Iran.
As Parsi rightly points out, this needs to change if any progress is to be made towards a reconciliation.
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