U.S.-Iran negotiations

Like I mentioned in my last post, the U.S. is going to have to negotiate with Iran at some point, its only a matter of time. A good place to begin negotiations is in areas of mutual interest such as Iraq and Afghanistan. Iran wants a stable Iraq and Afghanistan. Iran likes to have order in its neighbors for economic, political and security reasons. I really don't understand why the U.S. has not put more of an effort into working jointly with Iran in stabilizing the region. Iran is an expert at establishing order from chaos, just look at what they did in Lebanon and in Iraq so far.

Another area for negotiations is in regional security issues. Iran is not liked by most of their Arab neighbors (although all the Arab leaders have been traveling to Tehran more, another sign of Iran's growing influence in the region) not only is it ethnically Persian, but it's Shi'itte too. If Iran is to stop arming its proxies and supporting dissenting factions in Arab states the U.S. is going to have to grant Iran some measures to ensure Iran's security. If Iran is going to help secure American interests then America will have to help secure Iran's. There is no way around it, as long as people feel insecure there is going to be a security dilemma.