Iran
Mornin' ducks... In anticipation of the P5+1 talks in Kazakhstan this week, let's start the week in...
Iran
- Yousaf Butt, a nuclear physicist, urges the West to make Iran a serious offer. But Patrick Clawson argues that the Islamic Republic is just too dysfunctional to cut a nuclear deal. Farhang Jahanpour at Juan Cole's Informed Comment blog argues that talks with Iran might just work this time. Whose argument should we believe?
- In other news... For the first time since Iran and the US cooperated in overthrowing the Taliban, they have joined forces again to save ... wrestling. Wait ... does this mean the Iron Sheik is coming out of retirement?!? Hulkster, are you hearin' this? Oh, wait it's not the kind of wrestling where the Americans always win in the end... it's the other kind.
- There's another area where Iran clobbers the US: Iran is apparently much better than the US at providing maternity leave. But to be fair, almost everyone in the world is better than the US on this indicator (Notably, Iran also has obligatory two-week paternity leave). Now on the issue of abortion rights in Iran it's a rather different story... (h/t Robin Dougherty)
This is a guest post by Peter S. Henne. Peter is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University. He formerly worked as a national security consultant.
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