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get better, and the two foreign ministers did
,manage to smile briefly at each other during
their joint press conference.
Even their joint declaration had suddenly
been denuded of any bite or suggestion of
discord: the Germans said thanks for the
friendly reception, and the Turks purred like
kittens - in their own way.
What about the threatened Turkish veto of
NATO expansion? Not a word of it, at least
not directly. Threats that Turkey would cancel
the common customs union with the EU?
Not a syllable. All in all, not nearly as bad as
expected. Station master Kinkel could wave
the flag for the Oriental E)(press straight
through. to EU headquarters in Brussels.
If only it were so. In truth, the two foreign
ministers have only papered over the conflict,
and Çiller has made it clear that it will
soon bust out into the ~pen again. The threat
over NATO may pass, but the Turks have
discovered a new lever: Cyprus.
Without Turkéy's approval, there cannot
be EU membership for the island, and the
Turks will know how to use the leverage that
gives them. This farce could easily become a
tragi-comedy.
In Dealin~ With Iraq, theWestHas to
- By Stephen S. Rosenfeld Find a Middle Way
r ~
in 1992.
d~mocracy.1t suggests they are' Well, yes, I did feel a bit
~S~GTON. - folls. In the case of ~an. "emotional" readingwhatmay ~hat can. be ~xpecte~, from
W . Think strategIcally, not however, the two ways of thmk- well have been Mr. Sarkuhi' s . constructive dIalogue.
emotionally," say the foreign- ing are not inconsistent. Argu-lastpublicword' "Idon'tknow There's an antidote in a
policy realis~ for ~hom. the ably, the United States has stra- how long I ha~e. I await im- poli~y paper of the Washi,ngton
current Arneocan polIcy of Isol- .œgic reasons to stand off from minent arrest or an incident Institute for Near East Pohcy: to
ating .the Islamic Republic, of Te~. ~itho~! doubt, there whereby I will be murdered and pres,s our principal allies and
Iran ~s a dead end denymg are emotional reasons, to~. my death will be presented as a tradl~g partners, wh? !low ask
Washington ~e very .access, ,!ake thec~ of the .Ir~lan suicide. Torture, prison and ~o~mgn:omIran,toJomAmercompany
and mfluence It could wnter FaraJ Sarkuhl, Im- death await me " But what is Ica m setting concrete standards
use to alter the Iranian policies it prisoned eight years under the one supposed to do with the for ).ud~~ng th~ actua~,effic~y
abhor... .. shah. arrested for the fourth emotion generated by the spec- of ~otical dIalogue and. m
But ~alt a mmute. T~:l1~mgtime in five months by the mul- tacle of a decent man in possibly adoptmg a common potlcy
strategIcally ,me~s taking mto 'lahs' police last Nov. 3. His terminal distress? Be tough and ,based on the ~esults.
~~ount Iran s weIght ~d sen- open letter appears in The New ignore it? Be sentimental and Both Washmgton and Tehran
Sltiy~geography, RUSSias geo- York Review of Books dated declare war?
pronounce ~emselv~s prepared
poht~cal ov~rhang and ~e gre~t April 10. He wrote it on Jan. 3, The Europeans and Japan for. some kind of dlalog~e of
cC?mmg poze of Cas~llan OIL in a state of extreme agitation, have their own, flabby ré- theIr own: But the Ame?cans
Fme. It also means ,m someexpecting th~t he would soon '?e., sponse. They ~gree ~at the w~t to dISCUSSfirst Iran s ter-
~easure accommodating a r~- arrested agaIn, tortured agaIn Americans are oght to vIew the ro~sm and w~apons programs,
glIDe tha~ after ~8 ye~ still and murdered. . Iranian regime as an outlaw. wh~l~ the Iranians bo.ng up the
engages m ~rroosm, VIolence His police tormentors appar-, But, without asking for mod- :poh!Ical and e~onom~c consol-,
and subverSIOn and secretly ently were using him as ail in- eration in Iranian conduct, they Idatl~n. of thelT regIme. The
pursu~s weapons of mass de- strument of their crackdown on ignore the unilateral American makings o~ a ~ommon agenda
.structl?n. Not so fine.writers and intellectuals. They trade boycott and decry the U.s.are not yet l~ slg~t.
~ BeSIdes, the country that also intended to use his coerced sanctions penalizing foreign In the mteom, someone
most needs strategic thinking is confessions to paint him as a companies that do major energy should figure out ho~ to re~tore
1raJ.1. Tehran'~ feud ~ith the ..FrenchandGermanspyinorder, business with Iran. Better, they a ~rmanent ~eocan diplo-
Umted.States ~sfor a ~sky ~d ~odeflate the uproar over ~hat say, to work quietly on the in- matl~ presence m Iran: Form~l
expensive national distracnon ISknown as Mykonos affaIr.1n side and conduct a "construct- relatIons, bro~en ?ff m Iran s
for Iran. The principal reason for a trial that has sobered much of ive dialogue" on human rights Carte~-era hlJackmg of the
Iran's isolation is not American European opinion, an Iranian with Iran. Amencan Embassy~ have never
hostility but its own contempt and four Lebanese stand ac- But the case of Mr. Sarkuhi, been restored. To lIsten and to
for the international rules~ cused in Berlin of assassinating which is not an isolated case and follow up wha~ever leads ~e-
"Thinking emotionally" is a an Iranian opposition leader and which has unfnJckd just in the velop over ~me, Arneoca,
loaded way to descr!be a con- three companions, at ~e past few mon~s, seems to con- should be back, m Tehran .
.c:em for human oghts and Mykonos restaurant m that cIty stitute a telhn2' comment on The Washmgton Post.
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