Iranian President Hassan Rohani’s first speech at the United Nations General Assembly went off seemingly without a hitch, delivering a reasoned call for diplomacy and mutual respect while faulting the international sanctions against his nation, attributing them to “war-mongering pressure groups.”
Rohani’s speech reiterated calls for cooperation, disavowing the notion of Iran ever acquiring nuclear weapons and calling for “immediate, results-oriented” talks aimed at ending sanctions and resolving Western complaints about the nation’s civilian nuclear program.
A pretty straightforward speech, and met with the usual official Israeli “walk-out” to express their displeasure at Iran in general, and was followed up with hawkish officials in the US and Israel condemning Rohani in an attempt to distract attention from the content of the speech and the prospect of diplomacy, and instead focus on the notion that Iran is playing some sort of trick.
Rep. Ed Royce (R – CA) quickly lashed the speech, saying Rohani was a “very clever fellow” and that he was plotting to acquire nuclear weapons under the guise of talks. He went on to falsely claim Iran was enriching uranium to nuclear weapons levels and making miniaturized warheads, both totally unsubstantiated allegations. He faulted EU support for Iran talks, saying they “got played” and warning that Rohani would similarly “play” the US if talks were agreed to.
Rep. Mike Rogers (R – MI) took a similar position in opposition to the deal, echoing Israeli claims that it is “too late” for negotiations now that Iran’s newly elected president wants to talk. Rogers similarly, and incorrectly, claimed Iran is escalating its enrichment, when in fact Iran’s civilian enrichment program is starting to phase out 20 percent uranium, having created enough to fuel its medical isotope reactor for the foreseeable future.
I wonder if Obama will make his next pitch for bombing Syria by invoking the threat from Iran?
Time for Emperor Nitwityahoo to come back to the UN and dust off his Wiley Coyote ACME-brand cartoon bomb–NOT!!
I have to say LOLOLOLOLOL
Thanks for the laugh from the bottom of my heart. You re 100% correct.
Right-wing Israel is the problem. An American has to try really hard not to figure that one out.
No,the problem is American perfidy by its elected officials who are supposed to look out for US,not foreign bribes by fifth column Zionist traitors
Some people are not happy unless they are busy destroying things.
The response to Ahmadinejad's 2007(?) speech was an 'education' for me. From memory, I heard Dennis Praeger, Laura Ingram and at least on other do almost exactly the same thing near the beginning of their show. Ran something like: Mock it / him a bit, act jovial. Read a sentence or two ostensibly so they-couldn't-say you were making-it-up (there was nothing illustrative of their attitude in those brief samples), then 'abandon' reading it as if they can't-take-any-more, pretending to giggle s'more at him. Praeger in particular said at least once, in an 'exasperated' falsetto, it was 'often incoherent.' I later heard that the speech had been difficult to find; so 100% of the pop impression of it for perhaps a week or two came from whores just like that. I eventually read it and there was zero material either deserving mockery or that was 'incoherent.' It was a lot of stating the obvious. The uniformity of it's treatment, and it's unavailability make it hard to escape some conclusions about the nature of the media here.
And more than just here. If you've seen John Pilger's THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY (~04:40, ~21:40)… USraeli mudslinging is at best about creating the situation where 'the best lack all conviction, and the worst are full of passionate intensity.'