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For Iran's spiritual leader, dialogue with the U.S. is no longer taboo
2012-05-22
Ahead of the Baghdad nuclear conference, Iran's tone has become conciliatory and optimistic, pointing to the Supreme Leader's decision to push President Ahmadinejad to the sidelines.
Perhaps to help Champ get re-elected, so that he can be more flexible afterwards...
An extraordinary report was published on Saturday in the conservative Iranian website Botia. According to the report, the chief of the Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force, General Qasem Suleimani, warned Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah not to attack Israel.

The website reported that during a meeting between the two, Suleimani explained to Nasrallah that "Israel is an isolated country, and any attack on it can portray it as the victim and us as the aggressors."
Suleimani even demanded that Nasrallah explain to his followers that the road to Jerusalem does not involve arms, but preaching.

Within a few hours the report was removed from the website, and a denial was published.
"Please don't kill us!"
Iran has not changed its official policy of supporting armed resistance against Israel. Yet aside for public statements by senior army and Revolutionary Guards officials -- saying Iran is ready for any act of aggression and is planning military drills -- the Islamic Republic's tone ahead of the Baghdad summit is conciliatory and optimistic.
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