Iran president Hassan Rouhani at the United Nations general assembly ( Reuters )
The Independent: Trump’s impeachment will embolden Iran to stand its ground over diplomatic crisis
The American and Iranian presidents see a bilateral meeting from completely opposite perspectives
There is no chance of a meeting between Donald Trump and Hassan Rouhani at the United Nations this week in New York.
Trump is not willing to give up his maximum pressure on Iran before he gets a meeting, and Mr Rouhani is not willing to meet before the pressure is lifted.
And the new talk of Trump’s impeachment in congress will now further reduce the possibility of direct talks between Tehran and Washington. The American and Iranian presidents see a bilateral meeting from completely opposite perspectives.
Trump, a longtime businessman, sees a face-to-face meeting as the starting point. It’s a way for him to build a relationship and then move forward to make deals. Rouhani, a longtime statesman, sees a one-on-one meeting as the ending point. He wants to get something concrete, before he shakes hands in front of cameras.
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WNU Editor: It is not only Iran that will be embolden. It is Russia. China. Countries that are negotiating trade deals with the U.S.. Countries that are threatening U.S. allies. I can spend the entire night making a list on how other countries can take advantage of the U.S. if the President is embroiled with impeachment.
Bolden Iran? Russia? N. Korea?
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What does "embolden" mean anyway? Do the people who use this word mean to say that they understand perfectly what the intentions of the countries at issue are and that, therefore, the US must do certain things in order to keep them from realizing those intentions? I don't think this is true now nor do I think it's ever been true. US policymaking has been afflicted with geopolitics and related ideologies for so long that the policymakers are living in a fantasy world which has nothing to do with reality. The US-led attacks on Iraq and Libya and their aftermaths are evidence of that.
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