Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 11/2013

Great Expectations: Iran's New President and the Nuclear Talks

August 2013

International Crisis Group

Abstract

In its latest briefing, Great Expectations: Iran's New President and the Nuclear Talks, the International Crisis Group examines the potential embodied by Rouhani's election. There are still far more questions than answers: about the extent of his authority; his views on his country's nuclear program; and the West's ability to display requisite flexibility and patience. But although both sides can be expected to show caution, now is the time to put more ambitious proposals on the table.