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Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/09/23/zakaria.ahmadinejad.shrewd/
Iran Not Willing to Engage
(CNN) Fareed Zakaria - The Obama administration's Iran policy was premised on the idea that we would reach out to the Iranians. That strategy was premised on the idea that the Iranians would be willing to talk, to engage. It doesn't appear as if they are. The reality is that the Iranian regime has as its core a kind of anti-Americanism, and maybe that's the DNA and it's just very difficult for them to move out of it. For whatever reason, they are not willing to play ball, so the Obama administration is left to figure out, in the absence of Iranian cooperation, what's the best strategy. So they've pushed sanctions. But it remains to be seen whether in the short-term sanctions will produce the ultimate goal, which is to make the Iranians cut some kind of a deal on the nuclear issue.