If I were the POTUS, NO dialogue with a nuclear rogue state like Iran will ever be conducted.
None whatsoever.
Just shut up and stay silent. Talk to the hand, Ahmadinejad.
Definitely. They want to talk, they’ll have to shut down the nuclear program. It’s clear that the nuke thing is part of their strategy to be taken seriously and negotiated with, in a way that is acceptable to their politics and idealogy (IOW, not with their hand out, but their head held high). However, there’s no way they’re developing enrichment merely to generate electrical power.
Of course, in hindsight (and in foresight back at the time) I think I’d have leveled Iraq and moved the entire population into purpose-built new (and mosque-free) towns with no access to outside media (no al-Jazeera for example), then redrawn the map, carving Kurdistan out of Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and (I think) Syria, then unleashed on Iran and Turkey (and Syria) using a new Kurdish armed forces trained by the US, along with Iraqi Arabs (the old armed forces, for example) wanting to settle scores (although Saddam’s Iraq started it) over the Iran-Iraq war.
Having sealed the border of the former Iraq with Syria and Jordan, it would be expected that all of al-Qaeda would have drained out of all other theaters to fight us in Iran. Hell, using dirty tricks, we could have set up covertly funded recruitment centers to literally drain the Moslem countries of all possible volunteers, and churned them into little bitty smoking piles of cannon fodder.
But I’m funny that way.