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| Things going on behind the scenes with Iran |
| 2002-06-25 |
| The Iranian regime’s number two man offered the United States an olive branch "provided that Washington quits its imperialist and hegemonic policies and shows good will". Trouble is, they've always been pretty tetchy in their definition of "hegemonistic behavior"... "If America drops its bullying as well as its imperialist policies, the Islamic Republic of Iran is ready to co-operate with that country", former Iranian president Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said Friday during the weekly prayers. I'd call that significant, too. Rafsanjani's usually consistently vitriolic... Since Iranian press and lawmakers revealed that Tehran and Washington were in secret talks studying best ways and means of normalising relations, this is the first time that Iran’s most powerful man after the leader brands an olive branch to the United States. "Iran is not pursuing an adventurist policy against America and if that country shows good will and treats other countries on an equal footing, Iran is ... ready for any kind of co-operation with America", Rafsanjani added. Rafsanjani had dispatched a team, led by a former Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, to Cyprus to meet American officials there. It was after these divulgations, confirmed by influential lawmakers, that Ayatollah Ali Khameneh'i, the leader of the Iranian regime imposed a black out on the press on any article, comment or opinions concerning Iran-American talks. So speculation about the talks is blacked out. I'd not trust them too deeply, but obviously all is not as it seems... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Trust Fred, and not Iranian pigs who forbid the normal development of children. Progress?: against the wishes of the theocrats who interfere in the governmental affairs of Iran, that country has just raised the age at which girls can be given in marriage to 13, from 9. The parasite class of mad mullahs had argued that since "the prophet" married Aisha - his child bride - at "six" (says the Bukhari Hadeeth) and consummated it when the little girl was "9", that age was god-willing (inshallah). If it quacks like a duck, then its a duck. If it acts like a pedophile, then it is a pedophile. |
| Posted by: RG Fulton 2002-06-25 13:57:26 |