Is It Time to Bury the Hatchet with IRAN.(desire to improve relations with Iran)

From: USA Today (Magazine) | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: Griffiths, Eldon; Nathan, James A. | Copyright information

A delegation from the World Affairs Council made a visit to Iran and has discovered that most Iranians are eager and willing to improve relations with the United States. Harmony between the two countries is blocked by the American stance that Iran promotes terrorism and Iran's disappointment with the United States siding with Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war of the mid-1980s.

An eyewitness team finds most Iranians eager to resume ties with the United States.

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