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UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Iran's ambassador to the United Nations said Tehran wants to work directly with the United States on an "easily attainable" resolution, if Washington drops "the intimidation tactics."
Ambassador Mohammad Javad Zarif's statement came the day after the International Atomic Energy Agency pleaded with Iran to continue talks with European nations that want to offer it incentives in exchange for ending its nuclear-enrichment program.
"We are prepared to engage in serious discussion in order to resolve this issue, and we have not made any exception with regard to the United States," Zarif said on Thursday.
According to the world of Right Wingers, when Iran says it is willing to join discussions, it must naturally mean it is because the NeoCon's testerone charged intimidation tactics has made them decide that.
Oooh the power of America!
Ooooh it can just look at you and make you wilt!
Oooh.
Next you'll be saying Bush can make Ahmadinejad melt with his laser beam eyes.
Iran have said they will only join discussions if there's something worthwhile on offer.
But let's forget that, because that does not fit with the perception America made them do it because of American Administration clever-ingenious-all-powerful-sabre rattling intimidation.
Originally posted by Regensturm
According to the world of Right Wingers, when Iran says it is willing to join discussions, it must naturally mean it is because the NeoCon's testerone charged intimidation tactics has made them decide that.
Oooh the power of America!
Ooooh it can just look at you and make you wilt!
Oooh.
Next you'll be saying Bush can make Ahmadinejad melt with his laser beam eyes.
Iran have said they will only join discussions if there's something worthwhile on offer.
But let's forget that, because that does not fit with the perception America made them do it because of American Administration clever-ingenious-all-powerful-sabre rattling intimidation.
Originally posted by skippytjc
I hope we see this headline soon:
“Iranian civilians topple its government in revolt. New leader asks the world for help…opens diplomatic relations with the world…”
I fear anything shy of an Iranian revolt wont be enough.
Originally posted by xmotex
Iran has been trying to open direct talks with the US for a while, and the US has consistently refused. For all the talk about "dimplomacy", the US has so far rebuffed every single diplomatic overture the Iranians have made.
Far from being a reason to celebrate, this latest round shows the US leadership stubbornly adhering to a failed policy, a fake "diplomacy" where we refuse to even acknowledge that the Iranians are trying to talk to us.
Iran is hardly anyone's model country, but at least they've been attempting to talk. Too bad nobody in Washington is listening.
Iran Proposal to U.S. Offered Peace with Israel
by Gareth Porter
www.commondreams.org...
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WASHINGTON - Iran offered in 2003 to accept peace with Israel and to cut off material assistance to Palestinian armed groups and pressure them to halt terrorist attacks within Israel's 1967 borders, according to the secret Iranian proposal to the United States. The two-page proposal for a broad Iran-U.S. agreement covering all the issues separating the two countries, a copy of which was obtained by IPS, was conveyed to the United States in late April or early May 2003. Trita Parsi, a specialist on Iranian foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies who provided the document to IPS, says he got it from an Iranian official earlier this year but is not at liberty to reveal the source.
The two-page document contradicts the official line of the George W. Bush administration that Iran is committed to the destruction of Israel and the sponsorship of terrorism in the region.
Ahmadinejad: Not Hitler After All
www.alternet.org...
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A now discredited article by Iranian-American and neocon chum Amir Taheri that appeared last Friday in the Canadian National Post suggested that new legislation in Iran would require Jews and other religious minorities to wear distinctive color badges. At the article’s end appeared this invitation to readers:
"Dangerous Parallel: Is Iran turning into the new Nazi Germany? Share your opinion online at nationalpost.com."
The readers who wrote in immediately savaged the article, its author and the National Post's facile, transparent attempt to resurrect the Wermacht. No one took the bait, and the disbelief quickly spread across the internet.
The swift rejection of this attempt to turn Iran into the Fourth Reich incarnate is surely a natural reflex of a public still smarting from the ordeal of the Iraq PR campaign. Another explanation for the rapid response is the massive growth in streams of alternative information available to the public -- organizations like Media Matters and PR Watch literally make their living exposing lies and propaganda as they are released through media and government channels.
U.S. resorts to blackmail to pressure Iran - Report
www.aljazeera.com...
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The United States is threatening foreign banks with fines and lost businesses if they continue their operations in Iran in a bid to squeeze the Iranian regime, USATODAY reported.
Top Treasury and State Department officials have stepped up efforts to limit bank’s operations in Iran in the past six months, imposing banking laws and traveling to Europe and the Middle East to stress the risks associated with dealing with the Iranians.
Paranoia As Policy - How Bush Brewed The Iran Crisis
www.rense.com...
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Why did the Bush regime create a crisis over Iran?
The answer is that the Bush regime is desperate to widen the war in the Middle East
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There is no evidence for the Bush regime's accusation that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. What the Bush regime is trying to do is to unilaterally take away Iran's right under the non-proliferation treaty to develop nuclear energy. It is the Bush regime that is violating the treaty by attempting to deny its benefits to Iran.
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The US cannot forever dominate the Middle East in behalf of its interests and Israel's. The US is running out of resources. The US is heavily in debt, yet continues to hemorrhage red ink. Washington is dependent on foreigners to finance its wars. Offshoring has diminished America's ability to manufacture. The US is now dependent on China for advanced technology products and on Europe and Asia for manufactured goods. The American middle class is beginning to experience employment problems and income stagnation. The neocons' idea that the US can patrol Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and Syria in perpetuity is insane. The Bush regime has proven that the US cannot even occupy Baghdad.
Originally posted by skippytjc
“Iranian civilians topple its government in revolt. New leader asks the world for help…opens diplomatic relations with the world…”
I fear anything shy of an Iranian revolt wont be enough.