You need not possess a doctorate in diplomacy to summon skepticism for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's rhetorical peace campaign.
Whatever his arrival on the world stage represents, whatever his genuine personal inclinations, he operates within an autocratic system ruled by an insular clique that justifies mass human rights abuses in the name of religious dogma. His words have been constructive, but his power to turn those words into action depends upon the assent of leaders who have for decades disdained much of the world community, maintaining Iran as a pariah state while depriving its people of freedom and prosperity.
And yet to sit in a room with Rouhani, as I got to do on Thursday night in New York, is to contemplate the prospect that a real opportunity is at hand to defuse one of the globe's most menacing threats.
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