Now’s the time to engage Iran

Canada can demonstrate leadership here by sorting out its own dysfunctional relations with Iran and by pointing out the obvious truth that NATO will be thwarted in Afghanistan as long as Iran is excluded from the negotiating table.

OTTAWA—A realistic approach to international affairs suggests there are no permanent enemies, only permanent interests, and states must constantly reorient themselves to advance those interests. Thirty years of diplomatic estrangement between the United States and Iran, however, have entren...

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