From TomDispatch
By Pepe Escobar
''Let’s start with the obvious but important: on entering the Oval Office
in January 2009, President Obama inherited a seemingly impregnable
three-decade-long “Wall of Mistrust” in Iran-U.S. relations. To his
credit, that March he directly addressed
all Iranians in a message for Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, calling for
an “engagement that is honed and grounded in mutual respect.” He even
quoted the thirteenth century Persian poet Sa’adi: “The children of Adam
are limbs of one body, which God created from one essence.''
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