The AP reports:
Iran’s foreign minister made a rare visit to the U.S. capital Wednesday on a visa granted with unusual speed by the State Department one day before the start of nuclear talks in Geneva. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley played down the significance of the U.S. decision to permit the visit by Manouchehr Mottaki, even though it marked the first time in years that a senior Iranian official has visited Washington. “I wouldn’t read too much into this,” Crowley said.
Pletka declines Crowley’s suggestions and reads into this:
State Department flack P.J. Crowley promises Manouchehr Mottaki won’t be meeting U.S. officials, but in light of recent Obama administration meetings with every international thug they can find (Cuba, Burma, Syria), one has to wonder. Indeed, promises for tomorrow’s P5 +1 meetings in Geneva-theoretically among all the interested parties in Iran’s disarmament-have already turned into a one-on-one between the U.S. and Iran. Quick work indeed.
Let me be clear: visas for members of the Burmes junta, visas for members of A’jad’s terrorist government, but no visas for members of the government in Honduras, which expelled a wanna-be Chavez-style tyrant with the consent of the country’s constitutional court and its democratically elected legislature. One sharp observer suggests that the Iranian foreign minister is “perhaps looking at properties for when they reopen an embassy — I am not joking.”
