US Promises Israel: New Iranian President Will Be Met With Hostility

US to Threaten Rohani Even More than Ahmadinejad

Last month, US officials were greeting the election of Reformist candidate Hassan Rohani as Iran’s next president as a hopeful sign, while simultaneously patting themselves on the back and taking credit for his election.

But if Rohani was really the candidate the US wants, they have a funny way of showing it, as US diplomats are now reassuring Israelis that the US will treat Rohani with intense hostility, and will up the sanctions and threats against Iran going forward.

The promises appear designed to assuage Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who fears that Rohani’s election has spoiled his assorted war plans and has been railing about the need to threaten Iran more often every chance he gets.

Rohani has already called for direct talks with the US, and while the State Department was quick to issue a statement of its own to virtually the same effect, it isn’t clear if the talks will ever actually happen, with Israel too likely to fly off the handle if the US participates and US hawks eager to treat whoever wins Iran’s election as the next “enemy.”

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nomange

Isn't it time to stop this nonsense? We have a bunch of hacks in the Administration and Congress beholden to a foreign government (Israel) whose interests do not coincide with our own, and whose policies have become more and more of an existential threat to our economic and geopolitical interests.
The Iranians want to resolve the issues that separate us. Why can't our leaders get it together and make a meaningful effort to make peace and begin a fruitful relationship with Iran?
Roger Lafontaine

Why is Rohani's election met with hostility from the US ? The answer is: military plans are already 'in the pipeline' and nothing can deter the military from going through with their plans. That is why the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki went ahead. Once started the generals stop at nothing until they 'achieve their objectives'. That is the military mindset. And this country is now ruled and driven by that mindset. Peace is not the goal. Peace is the obstacle in the way of the goal.
Jill Briggs

A puny little nuclear tail trying to wag a big dog!
Anti_Govt_Rebel

My prediction is that the US govt will call off the talks with Rohani no matter what he offers, and then blame the failed talks on Iran for some made-up slight.
It is the US govt that is most responsible for either inspiring bloodshed and violence around the world, or actually carrying it out.
Once the US govt decides on a course of action such as "regime change" in Iran, it usually will not change course, no matter how ridiculous the goal. In this situation, it is Israel calling the shots, and the US govt obeys.
- Baumann Theo
  
  Unfortunately your predictions will come true. after all, the USA is good at starting wars and calling it PEACE !
Empire Slayer

Iran hasn't carried out any aggression in over 200 years, unlike the US, which performs aggression regularly, often nonstop and in multiple places simultaneously.

Iran may back the forces resisting Israel's aggression in Palestine and Lebanon, but that's no reason to dislike them. That's perfectly understandable, not to mention something the US does with twenty times the scope.

USrael want to find Iranian weapons shipments to Syria, and so they asked Iraq to stop Iranian planes and search them. All they ever find is non-lethal aid like medicine and food.

Of course Iran has a repressive internal society. They execute a lot of people, but so does the US. 90 percent of the world does not do executions, but the US and Iran are some of the few that do.

And it's not like the US cares about any country having a repressive society internally. US has not only installed the worst dictators around the world, but also supports them in places that are far worse than Iran, like Saudi Arabia, on of the biggest US allies and client states, and Bahrain, where US tear gas is helping to keep the people from having any say over their lives.

What US wants in Iran is to get back control of the oil that we took in 53 and lost in 79. Israel is probably in on that, too, but also just wants to be able to take all of Palestine.

-empireslayer.blogspot.com
- Thomas L. Knapp
  
  "Iran hasn't carried out any aggression in over 200 years"
  
  Actually Iran invaded Iraq in the mid-1970s.
  
  But it's certainly been less aggressive than, say, the United States.
Anti_Govt_Rebel

There were some minor border skirmishes in 1970's, but it was Iraq that invaded Iran on Sept 22, 1980. It took Iran nearly two years to get the upper hand, and for six years was on the offensive. Both sides accepted a cease fire agreement in Aug 1988