Iran vs. Honduras

Published September 19, 2009 4:21pm ET



Our Secretary of State gives a lengthy interview to the Washington Post‘s Glenn Kessler that includes some remarkable exchanges. The bizarre contradiction in this administration’s approach to authoritarian Iran on the one hand and democratic Honduras on the other is offered by Clinton without any evidence that she herself is aware of inexplicable double standard. Clinton says of the administration’s commitment to reaching out the Iranian regime, despite the crackdown after this summer’s rigged elections,

…there’s a lot of ongoing instability and jockeying for power. But that’s up to the Iranians, so what we are doing is dealing with the people who hold the power now.

And then Kessler asks about Honduras, where the administration has refused to engage with the current government that came to power with the consent of the country’s highest court and its legislature in order to prevent a power grab by the former president:

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