http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-irandemocracy/dialogue_enemies_4666.jsp Comments for "The Iran-America parley: enemies within, Sanam Vakil " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-irandemocracy/dialogue_enemies_4666.jsp <p>A week which began with a long-awaited, much-hyped meeting between senior officials from the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America is ending with reports of the US&#39;s military build-up in the Persian Gulf and of Iran&#39;s prosecution of scholars with links to western institutions. The diplomatic dance seems already to be in the shadow of a more familiar game where hardliners on each side reinforce each other by raising tension and looking for confrontation. What then is the real importance of the mere four-hour conversation on 28 May 2007 in <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/28/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-US-Iran.php" target="_blank">Baghdad </a>between Iran&#39;s ambassador to Iraq, Hassan Kazemi-Qomi, and his counterpart, US ambassador Ryan Crocker? </p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-irandemocracy/dialogue_enemies_4666.jsp" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-irandemocracy/dialogue_enemies_4666.jsp">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-irandemocracy/dialogue_enemies_4666.jsp#comment democracy &amp; power Creative Commons normal democracy &amp; iran Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:55:46 +0100 admin 19645 at http://www.opendemocracy.net