Earlier this week, the Wonk Room’s Matt Duss said we needed less Kremlinology about Iranian politics and more focus on the Supreme Leader as the key decision-maker. Today, the Wall Street Journal reports that the administration is taking that advice to heart and “looking at ways to develop a direct line of communication to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.”
Sounds about right to me. There are a lot of issues we can (and should) be talking to Iranian officials about that are fairly low-level. We have not-so-different interests in Iraq and Afghanistan and there are lots of discussions that can be had at various levels about those things. But the Iranian nuclear program involves very deep questions about the strategic orientations of the United States and Iran. Only Khamenei can make those decisions.
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