Iran Simmers, America Moves On

Iran Simmers, America Moves On – Wall Street Journal editorial.

That didn’t take long. President Obama last week gave Mahmoud Ahmadinejad an autumn deadline to negotiate over Iran’s nuclear program. “We remain ready to engage with Iran, but the time for action is now,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said yesterday in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations. So much for waiting to see how Iran’s post-election drama plays out.

Premature would be a generous description of this diplomatic outreach. Leave aside that this regime can’t be trusted to negotiate anything. More immediately relevant is that millions of Iranians refuse to accept the “leaders” of the “Islamic Republic” (in Mrs. Clinton’s words) that the Administration so eagerly aims to engage. Massive street protests roiled Tehran, Shiraz, Esfahan and other cities in the wake of the transparently fraudulent June 12 poll. The Basij and Revolutionary Guard goon squads got the people off the streets, killing an unknown number, and the regime blocked nearly all foreign reporting out of Iran…

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