WASHINGTON, D.C. Iranian/American relations, after a generation of hostility, are beginning to thaw. The moves underway are gradual, ranging from regional security to sports, but could result in full rapprochement. Such a reconciliation may, indeed, prevent one of today’s fashionable academic ideas, that of a “clash of civilizations” between the Christian and Moslem worlds, from ever taking place. Iran’s initiatives to America, indeed, indicate that it wants to be part of today’s globalization, not isolated within a brooding Islamic bloc.
WASHINGTON, D.C. Iranian/American relations, after a generation of hostility, are beginning to thaw. The moves underway are gradual, ranging from regional security to sports, but could result in full rapprochement. Such a reconciliation may, indeed, prevent one of today’s fashionable academic ideas, that of a “clash of civilizations” between the Christian and Moslem worlds, from ever taking place. Iran’s initiatives to America, indeed, indicate that it wants to be part of today’s globalization, not isolated within a brooding Islamic bloc.