From AFP:WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States no longer seeks "regime change" in Iran and Tehran should respond accordingly by heeding global demands it freeze its suspect nuclear program, a top US senator said Wednesday.
"We are not in 'regime change' mode," Democrat John Kerry, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee told a hearing exploring the prospects for US President Barack Obama's new policy of engaging the Islamic republic.
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My Comment: The key phrase from the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is the following:
"Our efforts must be reciprocated by the other side: Just as we abandon calls for regime change in Tehran and recognize a legitimate Iranian role in the region, Iran's leaders must moderate their behavior and that of their proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas," said Kerry.
Sigh .... Sen. Kerry is ignoring 30 years of Iranian/Islamic extremist history. He is formulating U.S. foreign policy on the "hope" that the Iranian regime will change their policy.
Is anyone telling him that they will not, and there is no reason to believe that they will in the future. .... apparently not.
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