Obama aide Brzezinski, ex-Carter adviser, sees Iran ties modeled on China opening - by Indira A.R. Lakshmanan
A campaign adviser to President-elect Barack Obama who helped President Jimmy Carter open full diplomatic ties with communist China said eventual normalization of relations with Iran would benefit the U.S. Zbigniew Brzezinski, 80, a former national security adviser who traveled to Beijing 30 years ago to pave the way for the new relationship, said today that taking a similar path with Iran may help reshape its anti-American government. "One of the reasons that I do favor a dialogue with the Iranians, and if it is feasible, the establishment of normal diplomatic relationships, is that I think that would help promote political change in a country which is far less centrally controlled, far less subject to effective state authority than was or is the case in the People's Republic of China," he said.
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