On Tuesday, President Trump announced he is open to negotiations with Iran to make a “real deal.” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi rejected the proposal, saying Iran isn’t interested in “one-sided” talks
“America should forget forever the idea of one-sided negotiations under the shadow of a threat,” Qassemi was quoted as saying in comments to Tasnim news agency. He noted Iran has also filed an official letter of objection to the US through the Swiss embassy, which handles communications between the two nations.
The letter of objection is centered on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s speech on Sunday, in which he called Iran’s leaders a “mafia,” and called on Iranians living overseas to begin supporting anti-government protests in Tehran.
Trump’s openness to negotiations came just days after he threatened Iran with “consequences the likes of which few have suffered” in history. While the administration is believed to be using the threats as an incentive to talk, Iran appears to be less interested in talks so long as they are predicated on the US threatening them.
No dialogue with the Trump administration until it first learns some manners.
N Korea was kinda desperate, and running out of cards to play. Iran has a strong position in the region, relative to the world economy (straits of Hormuz), and in global opinion. Iran rightly expects to be treated with respect as a semi-equal. Before the nuclear deal, the US / Israel could have rallied the world around attacking them, but not anymore, not without some serious dirt on them.
Everyone told Trump what a genius he was when it came to dealing with NK, he thinks it will work with anyone.
True, everyone told Trump what a genius he was when it came to dealing with the DPRK, so he thinks it’ll work with anyone. However, he’s entirely wrong when it comes to Iran, the Islamic Republic is NO DPRK (which was desperate and running out of cards to play). Iran has a very strong position in the region, relative to the world economy (Straits of Hormuz), and in global opinion; and it expects to be treated with respect as a semi-equal. As nhmakingwaves rightly said, before the nuclear deal, the US/Israel could’ve rallied the world around attacking the Iranians, but not anymore, not without some serious dirt on them.
Iran’s a peaceful nation; it hasn’t attacked its neighbors in 400 years (the 1980-99 Iran-Iraq war was started by Iraq). However, it has built up its military so it can defend itself in case of attack by Israel and/or the US. But I don’t believe the US will attack, Trump was only bluffing; he knows darn well that an attack on the Islamic Republic would only bring disaster to the US Navy and Air Farce.