What will the future approach towards the war on terror and Iran especially?
Ambassador Mulford: First of all, I don’t know who’s going to win the election and I can’t possibly speculate on what future policies would be. Even if I wanted to, I wouldn’t be able to. Question: Why is there almost no [contact with Iran]…? Ambassador Mulford: To understand the relationship with Iran, you have to go back to the period of the hostages. We have now had 27 or 28 years of no relations with Iran and an Iran that is very hostile towards the United States. The behavior of Iran at the time of the hostage-taking was not something that Americans forget or forgive. And Iran is seen as unfriendly, hostile, and a major threat to world stability because it is the world’s leading financier and sponsor of terror in the region and elsewhere. And it is developing, we believe, a nuclear program. It has no reason to need a nuclear program. It has adequate resources for its own energy requirements from sources other than nuclear. We believe the reasons for that development are in order t
