Barack Obama’s offer to talk to Iran shows that America’s policy of “domination” has failed, the government spokesman said on Saturday.
“This request means Western ideology has become passive, that capitalist thought and the system of domination have failed,” Gholam Hossein Elham was quoted as saying by the Mehr news agency.“Negotiation is secondary, the main issue is that there is no way but for (the United States) to change,” he added.
After nearly three decades of severed ties, Obama said shortly after taking office this month that he is willing to extend a diplomatic hand to Tehran if the Islamic republic is ready to “unclench its fist”.
In response, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad launched a fresh tirade against the United States, demanding an apology for its “crimes” against Iran and saying he expected “deep and fundamental” change from Obama. Read More
Update 02 Feb
White House Backing Off Talks with Iran, Syria
“The president made it very clear to the transition team that there would be no contacts with foreign government officials during the transition,” said National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer.That meeting took place on January 11, said USIP, a bipartisan think tank financed by Congress.
Former defense secretary William Perry, who served in Obama’s election campaign, participated in some of these meetings focused on “a wide range of issues that separate Iran from the West: not only their nuclear program but the Middle East peace process, Persian Gulf issues,” Boutwell told AFP.
The Syrian president himself revealed on Monday that “dialogue started some weeks ago in a serious manner through personalities who are close to the administration and who were dispatched by the administration.”
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The Cable reported the meetings were spearheaded by Pugwash’s General Secretary Paolo Cotta Ramassino and consisted of four meetings over the past year, including three meetings in The Hague and a two-day December meeting in Vienna. Read story
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By the way just a note to all that are wondering why I do not say president in front of Barack Obama, I can not bring myself to say he is president because I’m not sure that he is a citizen of The United States! And now many of his actions has this American thinking that there is something wrong in denmark!