Ray Takeyh and Suzanne Maloney: Appeasement advocacy at its best
On July 7, the Council on Foreign relation’s top Iran expert Ray Takeyh testified before the “House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations” and appeared as an advocate of the Iranian green movement.
Just a few days before the hearing, Takeyh and his wife, Suzanne Maloney of Brookings institute had published a new article and lamented Ahmadinajad’s demise in Tehran as “a loss to America” because he was willing to compromise with US.
In fact, the illusion of reaching a deal with Ahmadinejad, nourished and publicized by Takeyh and Maloney, was the main reason for Obama’s refrain from supporting the green movement in 2009 and instead, he tried to engage the Iranian Holocaust denier President. At that time, millions were confronting the regime in the streets and the green movement was at its apogee.
In 2008 the “Brookings Institute” and the “Council on Foreign relations” asked Takehy and Maloney to author the third chapter of the book “Restoring the Balance. The chapter was titled “Pathway to Coexistence: A New U.S. Policy toward Iran”. They concluded that the US should abandon pressuring Iran and instead seek friendship and coexistence with the regime because “the Iranian regime is firmly entrenched in power for the foreseeable future.” The U.S. has no valid leverage against Iran and the sanctions are ineffective.
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http://english.iranianlobby.com/page1.php?id=82&bakhsh=ANALYSIS
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