Obama-Ahmadinejad summit in works?

[Confederate Kahanist]

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National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones' recent statement that President Obama would be prepared to meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad if Tehran resumes negotiations over its nuclear enrichment program has fueled speculation that such a meeting could occur late next year just as the U.S. presidential campaign season is to begin, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

One Middle East source even suggested the meeting could occur in Tehran.

In early August during a meeting of the United National General Assembly in New York, Ahmadinejad proposed face-to-face talks with Obama, but the White House reportedly declined.

A possible summit between Obama and Ahmadinejad brings to mind the February 1972 meeting in China between President Richard Nixon and Chinese Communist Party Leader Mao Tse-Tung, and the top secret briefing that then-National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger gave to China's Zhou Enlai on the extent that Soviet military forces were positioned against China.

The 1972 meeting led to understandings on such sensitive issues as Taiwan and paved the way to normalizing diplomatic relations between Washington and Beijing.

While a meeting with Ahmadinejad would score a major victory for Obama's emphasis of diplomacy over military action, other sources contacted for the G2Bulletin believe such a development "is unlikely."

Through a spokesman, Middle East expert Alastair Crooke, who has close contacts with the leadership in Iran and Syria, said that he has heard "nothing to suggest anything of the sort is imminent but (my) experience suggests that it is unlikely."