Nicholas Burns on Iran

Diplomacy is the best tool for Iran
The Boston Globe
August 16, 2012
Op-ed by: Nicholas Burns, professor of the practice of diplomacy and international politics and a member of the Belfer Center Board of Directors
Quoted: Graham Allison, Belfer Center director
Topic: Iran

“Are we are on a collision course to war with Iran? With negotiations flagging, sanctions inconclusive, and an intransigent Iran speeding boldly ahead with its nuclear enrichment program, the US government appears determined to stop Iran one way or another. My Harvard colleague, Graham Allison, calls it ‘a Cuban missile crisis in slow motion.’ Iran and the United States are like two trains hurtling toward each other on the same track in a breakneck game of diplomatic chicken.”

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