Counterproductive Bluster Toward Iran

America’s “tough-guy-ism” plays well at home, with politicians competing to see whose bluster is the most belligerent, but works less well with the targeted countries whose leaders have their own imperatives of politics and pride. President Obama is risking failure in Iran nuclear talks if he ignores this reality, say Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett. By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett In an Op-ed last week, we held that simply expressing an interest in “talking” to Tehran would not be...