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April 19, 2006       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/18/AR2006051801772.html

What We Need to Tell Iran

(Washington Post) David Ignatius - What Washington must communicate above all is the choice Iran faces as the crisis deepens over its nuclear program. The U.S. strategy is to warn the Iranians that they are approaching a fork in the road and to sketch what lies down each path. For an administration that is still regarded in much of the world as belligerent and unilateralist, the Iran strategy is almost painfully multilateral. It seeks to build as broad a coalition as possible to steer Iran away from acquiring nuclear weapons. And if this broad but shallow coalition fails to deter Iran? Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Undersecretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns are already planning a narrower "coalition of the willing" that would impose a tougher set of financial sanctions.

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