The New U.S. President and Iran
The New U.S. President and Iran

Summary/Abstract: Finally we leave this famous U.S. presidential elections behind, as Barack Obama winning a historic victory to become the first ever black president of the U.S. But this was just the first step for president-elect Obama. Everybody knows that as soon as he takes office in January 2009 he will find a series of problematic and major ongoing issues on his desk. Those major problems can briefly be listed as the global economic crisis, ongoing cases of Iraq and Afghanistan, ongoing nuclear cases of Iran and North Korea, global terrorism threat, and global climate issues. The result of this election has created an optimistic atmosphere all around the world. Since the unilateral and confrontational policies of the Bush Administration have damaged the U.S.’ image in the international community, this new president using the “time to change” slogan is seen as a chance for repairing this image. For sure one of the countries sharing this hope is Iran. After three decades of hostility the Iranians in general believe that Obama’s election may help to improve relations. It can be said that the Iranian public opinion and experts are both hopeful and deliberate. They are hopeful about an initiation of relations between two countries, and they are deliberate due to their previous experiences both by republican and democrat U.S Presidents. On the other hand, there are two main different groups with different views on that issue. The first one defends the idea that the newly elected president will be a good chance for recovering the relations; the other one defends the idea that nothing is going to be change.

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