Blue State Iran

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has congratulated Barack Obama on Tuesday's victory. In a letter mercifully much shorter than the 18 page missive he sent to Bush in 2006, Ahmadinejad implores Obama to "leave a good name behind for yourself":

People expect an immediate and clear response to the pressure for fundamental change in the American government's policies, both foreign and domestic. This is the desire of all the world's nations and of the American nation as well, and it should be the objective and basis of all your future government's programs and actions.

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In the sensitive Middle East region, in particular, the expectation is that the unjust actions of the past 60 years will give way to a policy encouraging full rights for all nations, especially the oppressed nations of Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan.

The really interesting part for me is when the Iranian President confesses that, "Iran would welcome major, fair and real changes, in policies and actions, especially in this region." What's to stop Obama taking taking his advice? The world wants to believe that Obama's ready to move away from Bush's hawkish policies, and Obama has more political capital to spend than any recent US president. Suggestion- in January Obama takes Ahmadinejad at face value and promises 'major, fair and real changes, in policies and actions' in the region, in exchange for a halt to Iranian nuclear development. He'll be making those sorts of promises anyway- why not put them to good use in Iran?