After months of speculation, Mohammad Khatami, the former Iranian president, is back into the next presidential election-race in Iran, and for a good reason.
He has already been in office for two terms between 1998-2006, later in 2005-6, he has been succeeded by the current infamous Iranian president - Ahmadi Nejad. The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq by the US came right in the middle of his terms in office. At the time of the Iraq's invasion, his government had offered its cooperation to the US and also its readiness to talk with the then Bush's administration over their differences. However, it has been suggested that Mr. Cheney, the US Vice President at the time, had thrown his government's offering letter into the rubbish bin - not a wise move at all. However, the Cheney's unwise move has been matched by Tehran when it produced the current president Ahmadi Nejad to handle the unwise people in the White-House; and ever since the Bush-Cheney's team had met their match.
It took more than 3 years and lots of effort by Tehran to turn the tide against the White-House - and it did it well. Since the acquisition of the presidential office, Ahmadi Nejad and his government - read it Tehran - has constantly been in business of creating more headaches for the US than the both wars in Afghanistan and Iraq together.
Now, however, the election of Mr. Obama as the new tenure of the White-House for the next four years has such significant effect on the Tehran-Washington relation which Tehran can not possibly afford to ignore. This has made Tehran cautious in its responses to the White-House's signals over the past three weeks.
And this latest news out of Iran - the Khatami's candidacy - is a proper response to the Obama's comment days ago in which he had emphasized that "now, it is Tehran's turn". After 30 years of mistrust between the two countries, I am sure both American people and the Iranian young generation would like to see the mistrust fade away.
He has already been in office for two terms between 1998-2006, later in 2005-6, he has been succeeded by the current infamous Iranian president - Ahmadi Nejad. The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq by the US came right in the middle of his terms in office. At the time of the Iraq's invasion, his government had offered its cooperation to the US and also its readiness to talk with the then Bush's administration over their differences. However, it has been suggested that Mr. Cheney, the US Vice President at the time, had thrown his government's offering letter into the rubbish bin - not a wise move at all. However, the Cheney's unwise move has been matched by Tehran when it produced the current president Ahmadi Nejad to handle the unwise people in the White-House; and ever since the Bush-Cheney's team had met their match.
It took more than 3 years and lots of effort by Tehran to turn the tide against the White-House - and it did it well. Since the acquisition of the presidential office, Ahmadi Nejad and his government - read it Tehran - has constantly been in business of creating more headaches for the US than the both wars in Afghanistan and Iraq together.
Now, however, the election of Mr. Obama as the new tenure of the White-House for the next four years has such significant effect on the Tehran-Washington relation which Tehran can not possibly afford to ignore. This has made Tehran cautious in its responses to the White-House's signals over the past three weeks.
And this latest news out of Iran - the Khatami's candidacy - is a proper response to the Obama's comment days ago in which he had emphasized that "now, it is Tehran's turn". After 30 years of mistrust between the two countries, I am sure both American people and the Iranian young generation would like to see the mistrust fade away.
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