[AdmSmith]

Different parts of the Iranian government (incl the clerics etc) have talks with the US, and in many cases they do not tell the other branches of the Iranian government of these meetings. Rafsanjani does this very often. This is very confusing.

[nuconvert]

I don't know what that has to do with anything.

I go back to my original statement:

"I think the students are overreacting on this point."

The U.S. is NOT going to make a deal with Rafsanjani and back him in 2005. Period. And that's the message the students need to get.