| Submit your comments on this article |
| Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
| Iran refuses talks with US in current climate |
| 2010-08-19 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that any talks with arch-foe the United States would occur only if Washington drops "sanctions and threats" against Tehran. "The respected president (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) and others have said that we are ready for negotiations. It is right. But not with America," Khamenei told a gathering of senior Iranian officials, including Ahmadinejad, in a speech broadcast on state television. "The reason is that America does not enter the field honestly as a normal negotiator. They should drop the face of a superpower, they should drop threats, they should drop sanctions and they should not set a goal for negotiations. Then we are ready." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 B. Dubya. Couldn't agree more. Peace through superior firepower. |
| Posted by: Mike Ramsey 2010-08-19 23:35 |
| #1 A "between the lines" translation: Obama is such a weak-kneed woman that the Iranians are pretty sure they can just tell Hillary to go stuff herself and get a twofer. To these people, polite interaction is weakness, and kindness is seen as cowardice; they are projecting Iranian responses onto us, thanks to the feckless Obama. Now, perhaps after we do a standoff, conventiional weapons strike on their new nuclear infrastructure, so that it resembles nothing so much as a smoking hole in the ground, when we ask politely a second time, they may well have learned about their own weakness and cowardice, and readily agree that talking is better than getting one's ass blown off. See? Make the climate warmer and everyone is happy. |
| Posted by: B Dubya 2010-08-19 13:12 |