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All three newscasts covered Barack Obama's videotape message to wish Iran a Happy New Year. NBC's Andrea Mitchell even played the President's greeting in Farsi. ABC's Jim Sciutto, who filed from Qom--"known as Iran's Vatican"--made note of "one more sign of respect," the fact that Obama concluded with the words of Sadi, "a revered Iranian poet." The videotape message was not broadcast on Iranian television, but it was available via satellite television and via online videostreams. NBC's Mitchell called Obama's tone "conciliatory" and "respectful." ABC's Sciutto pointed to his use of the nation's formal name, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and CBS' Lara Logan picked up on "a change in tone, with the President citing differences rather than regime change."
From her base at the State Department, NBC's Mitchell noted that Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton has invited Iran to a conference on Afghanistan in less than two weeks: "That could mark the start of real diplomacy."
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