What happened? For months, even years now, the Bush administration has been touting war with Iran. You couldn’t open a paper without seeing a hint of it. Now they’re going for diplomacy? I guess it finally dawned on them, with so many military resources being used up in Iraq and Afghanistan, that there’s not much left over to send into Iran.

U.S. to establish presence in Tehran: report

LONDON (Reuters) - The United States will announce in the next month that it plans to establish a diplomatic presence in Tehran for the first time in 30 years, a British newspaper said on Thursday.

In a front-page report, the Guardian said Washington would open a U.S. interests section in the Iranian capital, halfway towards opening an embassy. [...]

“The move will see US diplomats stationed in the country.” [...]

On Sunday, President Amhmoud Ahmadinejad suggested Iran would consider any proposal by the United States for a U.S. interests section in the Islamic Republic, should one be forthcoming.

For all the posturing and pro-war idiocy coming out of Washington for so long now, Ahmadinejad is being quite reasonable.