One paragraph in President Barack Obama’s initial speech on the Iran deal was superb, and, though he buried it near the end, it was and is the crucial paragraph—the one paragraph that may turn out to justify everything else in the speech. This was the paragraph in which Obama spoke directly to the Iranian people:
Our differences are real, and the difficult history between our nations cannot be ignored. But it is possible to change. The path of violence and rigid ideology, a foreign policy based on threats to attack your neighbors or eradicate Israel—that’s a dead end. A different path, one of tolerance and peaceful resolution of conflict, leads to more integration into the global economy, more engagement with the international community, and the ability of the Iranian people to prosper and thrive.
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