CSMonitor: U.S. shifts tack on Iran with decision to send envoy to nuclear talk - by Liam Stack
In a surprising development in the tense American-Iranian relationship, the US announced this week that it would send a high-level State Department official to attend talks with Iranian nuclear negotiators in Switzerland over the weekend. This unexpected policy turn comes after a tense, saber rattling summer during which the US, Israel, and Iran have traded threats, staged war games, and tested weapons. But observers suggest that the shift in the US's longstanding tactic of isolating Tehran may be motivated by a desire to ensure that other countries such as China and Russia do not make too many concessions to Iran during the negotiations.
Note EU-Digest:Washington finally has realized that one way of avoiding the further meltdown of the US economy that dialog with Iran is a far better tactic to calming down the jitters about the US economy in the financial world than taking confrontational actions.
