Can this tactic be successful in helping reduce the threat of nuclear weapons in that region?
Burns: Well along with Pakistan, along with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Iran may loom as the most difficult and perplexing foreign policy challenge for Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It’s been 30 years since the Ayatollah Khomeini launched the Iranian Revolution and during those 30 years the United States has not had diplomatic relations with Iran. The United States has had no appreciable presence of business people, or students, or journalists. We have been literally cut-off from each other, and there has been no sustained dialogue between the two governments since 1978. Now Iran represents a profound threat to American interests in the Middle East. It is seeking a nuclear weapons capability. It is the major funder and supporter of most of the Middle East terrorist groups that are a threat to us, a threat to Israel, a threat to the moderate Palestinians, a threat to our friends in the Arab world. And Iran, of course, as a neighbor to Iraq and Afghanistan, is playi
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