As Ezra mentioned, Putin met with the real power in Iran in order to broker some movement and dissipate the ridiculously childish war of words perpetuated by Bush and Ahmadinejad.
Russia is a 'real' player in Tehran and Khameini the real power in Iran, Bush is a sideshow and let's be honest, a pretty poor sideshow at best, his latest World War III pronouncement was not only glib and inflamatory but risible.
There is no doubt we have significant and longstanding differences with Iran but, a pragmatic opposition to the mullahs exists even as part of that leadership and Khameini knows it, it is those factions that will decide the outcome in this fracas and this administraton has not even looked at that angle choosing, instead, to hurl insults at the regimes powerless front man.
This administration is always caught having to sustain untenable positions because of their initial misreading or ignorance of the situation at hand, they always shoot from the hip first instead of sitting down and actually figuring out a reasoned, adult approach to the problems facing them.
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