Abstract
The article discusses the foreign policy of the government of Iran, as of January 2010. It focuses on the antagonistic relationship between Iran and the U.S. which has prevailed since the late 20th century, and the question of whether Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and U.S. President Barack Obama will be able to negotiate some form of detente. Iran’s attempts to become a nuclear power, and U.S. military operations in two of Iran’s neighboring countries, Iraq and Afghanistan, are discussed in this context.