First, it was "Moscow Vlad" over at The NY Times.  Now, it "the moderate from Tehran" going on The Washington Post. Do I see a trend here?   The cynic in me tells me that Iran is buying time, or wrapping up the West in a negotiation mode. Iran, like all others, have concluded that the US is weak.  They see a president who drew a red line, threatened to use force, couldn't get a congressional resolution and then backed into a deal that allows Assad to stay in power.  The bottom line is that we drew a line, someone crossed it and nothing happened.  They call that "weakness" in the real world. I agree with my friend Bill Katz: "My fear is that we will get an "agreement" with Iran that will be meaningless.  They'll "scale back" a small part of their program, allow some international inspection, and pursue the bomb secretly.  Europeans will be the first to look away, for there is business to be...(Read Full Post)