Opinion: What a 'diplomatic legend' thinks of Trump’s Iran policy
Then-Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns in 2013 in Washington. By Jason Rezaian Jason Rezaian Global Opinions writer Email Bio Follow Global Opinions writer April 9 at 6:00 AM In just two years, the Trump administration has transformed our handling of foreign policy into an international joke. The laborious work of making incremental inroads with adversaries and friends alike has been replaced by knee-jerk responses to some of our dire and pressing global challenges.
When Burns retired in 2014, then-Secretary of State John F. Kerry said he was on a “very short list of American diplomatic legends.” I recently had a chance to speak with Burns about his views on Iran. We started by discussing a particularly intriguing episode in his book — a 2008 memo he sent to then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in which he proposed a new multifaceted Iran strategy that would have even included U.S. diplomats based in Tehran.
It would have also “built credibility with international partners whose support we would need to tighten sanctions if Iran was incapable of a serious approach to negotiations,” according to Burns. So what would he recommend to his current counterpart at the State Department? How should we handle the Iranian challenge?
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