IRAN: US conciliatory approach to Tehran backfires*

Iran’s disputed election outcome represents a major foreign policy setback for the Obama Administration, which has adopted a conciliatory approach towards the hard-line 30-year-old Islamic republic, reports Joseph Poprzeczny.The foreign media and Western leaders have been preoccupied with the question of whether or not Iran’s recent election was fraudulent. But Iranian elections are essentially farcical events since, irrespective of who is declared victor, the real power always remains with the …

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