Shargh, a left leaning paper in Iran published a very interesting story speculating on whether an emergency political hotline would be set up between the United States and Iran (for non-Persian speakers, I apologize for the rough google translation). The article states that American officials, worried about a possible showdown in the Persian Gulf or elsewhere, requested that this hotline be set up.
This is quite interesting (and rational) -- I remember a friend, who was very intimate with this situation, telling me in Tehran that Iranian and US navy commanders in the Persian Gulf were actually on very good terms with one another (even calling each other on a first name basis) and were cooperating quite extensively and thoroughly regarding maneuvers, etc. since both sides did not want any accidents to happen in the highly pressurized atmosphere of the Gulf.
Who thought the men in uniforms would be the ones to extend diplomatic initiatives and niceties?
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