As the 2013 was the year of debacle for the US foreign policy in the Middle-East, specially in Syria, it seems that the coming year is the period for Iranian diplomacy to blossom.
Flynt Leverett, a former CIA analyst, and Hillary Mann Leverett, a political analyst, in an article on “Going to Tehran” web site wrote that US President Barrack Obama’s inability to materialize his red line on Syria has greatly hurt the credibility of the country, and because of the US failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, Washington is no more able to effectively threaten other countries.
“If 2013 was a year in which the profound deficiencies of America’s Middle East strategy were on extended display, we expect that 2014 will be a year in which the effectiveness of Iranian strategy comes to the fore,” they said.
The writers said that as Washington officials are unwilling to accept the Islamic Republic as an enduring political entity representing legitimate national interests, there is no room for being opptimistic about the American diplomatic opening with Iran.
They added that Iranian diplomats are really aware of the fact that the Americans are reluctant to reach an agreement based on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and Iran’s inalienable nuclear rights.
Iranians well know that it is hard for the US administration to disentangle itself from its previous Syria strategy which rules for the outster of President Assad, and it, thus, cannot have a constructive role in the restoration of peace in Syria, the Leveretts said.
“If the United States can truly reform its approach to the Middle East, certainly Iran can work with that. But if Washington continues down its counter-productive path in the region, Tehran can play off America’s accumulating policy failures and the deepening illegitimacy of its regional posture to advance the Islamic Republic’s strategic position,” the authors underlined.
