Teheran is ALREADY cooperating to the extent to which it sees as in its interests with the US in Afghanistan and in Iraq, which is probably why Obama and Brown's protests have been so muted.
--- On Mon, 6/22/09, ken hanly <northsunm at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: ken hanly <northsunm at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Monday, June 22, 2009, 10:28 PM
>
> Neither is a recruit to US imperialism as far as I
> know. The point is that because Rafjani is a free market
> advocate and for accommodating US interests that he is
> favoured by US imperialism. He would open up the country to
> US capital and perhaps even agree to some type of
> accommodation on the nuclear issue if he thought he could
> profit from it. Ahmadinejad on the other hand is strongly
> anti-us and his constituency seems to be those less
> westernised and not well off.
>