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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=266150
The Bitter Truth about Iran
(Jerusalem Post) Chuck Freilich - The simple fact is that Iran has rejected all efforts to reach a negotiated solution to date, beginning with Clinton and renewed with greater emphasis by Obama, and has used the passing time to further develop its nuclear capabilities. Let us not delude ourselves. Iran has good strategic reasons for seeking nukes, has turned the issue into a domestic cause celebre, and has so far demonstrated a clear willingness to pay the attendant costs. Hope is important, but is not a substitute for hardheaded policy. Unless a very unexpected change takes place in Iranian policy, ongoing diplomacy risks becoming a cover for acquiescence to a nuclear Iran. The writer is a senior fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School.