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| Axis of Evil |
| Iranian right hand denies what left hand is doing... |
| 2002-05-08 |
| The head of Iran's parliamentary foreign affairs committee has said Iran, contrary to official denials, has been holding secret talks with the United States, the official IRNA news agency said Wednesday. Many Iranian reformists have called for negotiations with Washington to ward off possible U.S. action against the Islamic Republic, which President Bush has called part of an "axis of evil." They didn't like watching Mullah Omar ride off into the sunset on a motorcycle, taking his Islamic emirate with him... "About the behind-the-scenes negotiations with American officials, contrary to what Iran's Foreign Ministry has announced, I have information that these negotiations were carried out," the agency quoted Mohsen Mirdamadi as saying. Mirdamadi, a leading reformist parliamentarian allied to President Mohammad Khatami and himself a former U.S. hostage-taker, said a consensus should be reached on Iran's stance on negotiations if Tehran were not to lose out. Yup. Get it while the gettin's good. Or possible... The claim came in direct contradiction of a Foreign Ministry denial this week of persistent rumors in Iranian political circles that Tehran officials had been holding secret talks with U.S. counterparts in Switzerland and Cyprus. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, last week ruled out talks with the United States. "No, negotiations will not solve any problem," he told a meeting of teachers. That's right, dammit. Only guns solve problems. And bombs. Wielded by pious men wearing turbans. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |