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The Boston Globe
LETTERS | EYES ON US FOREIGN POLICY
Nuclear talks with Iran point way to progress
MAY 03, 2014
ALI WYNE is right to suggest
patience before jumping to a conclusion over how President Obama’s foreign
policy will be remembered (“Weak foreign policy?” Op-ed, April 27). For
example, something that has received little attention is the progress in
nuclear talks with Iran. This success has come despite all the loose talk and
naysaying by cynical forces with their own agendas hoping the talks would fail.
The most important and
salient fact is that both the president of the United States and the president
of Iran are committed to finding a way forward. They know that it is in the
national security interests of their countries to make sure that the talks
succeed.
With continued negotiations
in good faith and mutual respect, rapprochement is certainly achievable, and
would bring an end to more than 30 years of estrangement. Furthermore, an
agreement on the nuclear issue could also lead to common ground on regional
issues that matter both to the United States and Iran. How would history
remember the president’s foreign policy then?
Fariborz S. Fatemi
McLean, Va.
The writer is a former staff member of the House
Foreign Affairs and Senate Foreign Relations committee