We seen plenty of resistance on the US side for a rapprochement with Iran, with hawks who have made their political careers playing off of decades of anti-Iran sentiment resisting any change as automatically unacceptable. 30+ years of acrimony has given the hostility momentum, and it’s increasingly evident on the Iranian side as well.
President Hassan Rouhani may have been elected on a campaign of diplomatic reform, but the hardliners he ran against remain influential, and military leaders are also expressing their displeasure at the negotiations on the grounds that the US simply can’t be trusted.
Gen. Mohammad Jafari, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, says that Rouhani should have refused the Friday telephone call from President Obama, saying it was a “tactical error” and that any such talks should be held off until the US takes concrete action toward ending the sanctions.
Rouhani’s election victory may have afforded him an opportunity to push for diplomacy, but it’s clear the job of selling diplomacy, as it is in the US, remains as much a domestic effort as an international one, and has an array of opponents hoping for its failure.
And than what? For know there is no war taking place and no one attacking Iran nor Iran destroying Israel or Saudi Arabia, later if that happens, than the generals from all party can start shooting at each other.
This guy was not elected and he should keep his stupid mouth shut.
Jafari has a point regarding US hostility. Obama playing "good cop" to Nuttyyahoo's "bad cop" is just that, and nothing more. The entire US modus operandi toward Iran has been premised on pressurizing and trying to create a pretext for an attack. The only reasonable Iranian stance is to accept nothing that does not involve a complete cessation of the warmongering efforts and a total repudiation of the idea that Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons. Otherwise, it's just a matter of caving in by degree to US and Zionist demands.
Not sure I'm buying, yet, that there's much of an issue with resistance to talks there. He's right to be suspicious of the gubment that ran multiple 'rounds of sanctions' on behalf of -er- liars and nutjobs from the region, he's got an opinion about how one deals with such weak-kneed a$$-kissers and he'd be dead-on if: the Israelis weren't so powerful here, the US prez were in his first term, his own new prez didn't have a vision on how to handle it…that there was no possibility of progress either on the sanctions issue itself or on the image of USrael.
How about we send John McCain and the head of the Revolutionary guard and the rest of the like off to the Fletcher Memorial Home for Incurable Tyrants and Kings? Seems like the rest of us in both countries would all be better off.