Contributed by: filbert Monday, August 22 2005 @ 08:23 AM CST
European diplomacy is reaping the expected benefits in Iran[*1] :
The Iranians themselves are now admitting that all of this is no happenstance but is a calculated effort to exploit what the mullahs perceive to be American weakness and Europe’s lack of will. An internal Iranian government document recently obtained by an opposition group says that “The talks process ended the suffocating economic pressures that our country was being subjected to in the months prior to the October 2003 agreement. . . . With the Americans deeply stuck in a quagmire in Iraq, the Europeans know that they will have to ultimately accommodate our just demands.”