Topics: Don't you think that Iran is playing Smart Power ? [Print This Page] Author: mudismud Time: 2010-2-4 12:07 Topics: Don't you think that Iran is playing Smart Power ?
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (7th from left) poses with government officials underneath the Simorgh (Phoenix) home-built satellite rocket during the unveiling ceremony in Tehran Wednesday.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that Iran has "no problem" with sending its enriched uranium abroad in exchange for nuclear fuel, while Washington said it was "prepared to listen" to Tehran's new offer.
Ahmadinejad, in Tuesday's interview broadcast live on state television, appeared to back the original UN-drafted proposal.
"We have no problem sending our enriched uranium abroad," Ahmadinejad told state television. "We say we will give you our 3.5 percent enriched uranium and will get the fuel. ... If we send our enriched uranium abroad and then they do not give us the 20 percent enriched fuel for our reactor, we are capable of producing it inside Iran."
Soon after the statement, Iranian Al-Alam TV announced the successful launch of a home-built rocket carrying an "experimental capsule," making the West jittery.
Since Secretary of State Hillary Clinton redefined the U.S. diplomacy as a showcase of smart power, the combination of hard and soft, the U.S. has kicked start a flurry of global engagement activities while the war in Middle East it launched and vowed to end is actually getting white hot. But the so-called smart power diplomacy has thus far never gone so far as anticipated, and some achievements are finally found beyond attainment for the one-year- old Obama administration. The best players of smart power, on the flip side, are the feuding rivals in American eyes. What Iran has presented to the world in recent days just illustrates the point.
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