Iran’s new President-elect Ebrahim Raisi has held his first news conference since last week’s election, and is setting out a goal for his foreign policy. A conservative, termed a hardliner by some, Raisi’s goals are not wildly dissimilar from those of outgoing reformist President Rouhani.
Raisi said his goal is to ease international sanctions, and he endorsed the JCPOA nuclear deal. He said his assessment is that the US should immediately return and fulfill its obligations to the deal.
This is important, as the JCPOA negotiations have advanced ahead of the vote. Iran’s outgoing government has suggested a deal be made before Raisi takes power, but if his position so resembles theirs, it likely is not so dire a need to finalize right away.
Beyond the nuclear deal, Raisi also suggested that a major focus of his administration will be improving ties with the Gulf Arab states. That is a tall order, as those nations have heavily built their policy on acrimony toward Iran.
Raisi added that he doesn’t intend to meet with Biden. This is likely just as well, as the White House said they don’t view the Iranian president as worth meeting, and rather believe the Supreme Leader is the real decision maker.
This is positive, and it is showing a way forward – powers from outside the region have been exploiting the tension between Saudi Arabia and Iran to provoke proxy wars. If Iran can cool those tensions that will be a good step forward to ending the proxy wars, and stability in the region would allow for a lot of economic growth and development.
The region is begging for stability.
So it turns out that RaisI sounds more realistic and sensible than the U.S.’s clients and Welfare Queens.. What a surprise… NOT..!! Why do we shower the monsters of this world with praise and protection as they murder & starve the ones who live on the land they covet. Yes, I’m talking about genocide artists we support praise & protect in one case unequaled aid riches as they kill those who block their illegal thefts and dislocations with our support. It’s Yemen and Palestine who sheds the blood by the ones who covet their land that has been theirs for millennia. It’s just criminal & insane!
Your hero murdered 30,000 Iranian dissidents.
We murdered 500,000 Iraqi children with our sanctions. We are all in on the genocide of the Palestinians. We gave SA in flight refuel to SA fighters jets, pinpointed targets, cut off supplies to Yemen, killing untold thousands.
So get back to your studies at Tel Aviv University……………..
Maybe you killed Iraqi children or Yemeni children. No doubt you studied and dropped out from Himmler University.
Hero? He said he was more realistic and sensible regarding the JCPOA. And as VIP pointed out, we killed 500,000, mostly women and children, with our sanctions alone in Iraq. That’s just a small fraction of the 20 million or so we are responsible for killing since WW2. 30,000 makes him look like Mother Theresa in comparison.
but it is indicative of the man’s leanings. When you speak of”we”,perhaps you mean yourself.
Sure it is. But compared to what? Biden? Trump? Netanyahu? They kill/killed more. And by “we” I mean the US. We had a reformer leading Iran and we wouldn’t deal with him. Iran is full of young people longing for change and we pushed them back into backing some hardliner. We have no one to blame but ourselves.
The religious authorities vet political candidates, and ultimately control the show of peace vs confrontation.
Netanyahus policies were wrong, but he certainly did not kill 30,000 people.
And a reformer was elected after being vetted by those religious authorities. But instead of diplomacy Trump decided to gift Israel, or Shelden Adelsen, with Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and by reneging on the JCPOA. We were the ones who chose confrontation not their religious leaders. And I’m sure 30,000 people died before their time during Netanyahu’s long term rule.
Millions have died for your Israel.
In your fevered protocols dreams.
Never have I mentioned the Protocols.
Your allies are al Qaeda in Syria, Antifa/PKK terrorists among the Kurds, actual Nazis in Ukraine, and genocidal tyrants in SA and UAE.
Millions die in your wars, all to create your impossible state. If any try to exit the region, you insist, “Oh, that’s anti-Semitic.”
But you don’t respect those whom you demand fight for you, don’t admit all who die for you. No honour.
These creatures are not my allies,perhaps they are yours.I have nothing to do with any of these entities-get yourself meds.
Israel’s allies. Do you not follow events? Are you just some kid, perhaps?
I want the US out of Syria and the Ukraine-Russia conflict. I want all sanctions to end, all foreign aid to end, all involvement in foreign affairs to end. The US should return to America, take up the policies of Calvin Coolidge.
I actually want the same. However, neither of us knows what other powers will do in the face of a vacuum of power. America isolationism failed to protect he US from WW2.
The US knew the Japanese were going to attack and provoked them. Hitler and Stalin weren’t invading the US. The entire war could have been avoided.
A sad truth is Southern WASPs, like myself, pushed the US into WWII. It’s a rare case where the South was in the wrong. Did you notice, btw, that I didn’t blame Jews? Jews weren’t so powerful until more recently.
If the warring finally ends, then populists like myself can focus on the US elite without any of the, “we need to be united against x foreign threat.” There are no foreign threats, just misdirected populists and a massive wealth gap.
There were Jewish people living in thes elands since before the birth of Jesus-they were expelled-what about them?
“Beyond the nuclear deal, Raisi also suggested that a major focus of his administration will be improving ties with the Gulf Arab states. That is a tall order, as those nations have heavily built their policy on acrimony toward Iran.”
But make sure you don’t send a top general out of country to improve those ties because your two main antagonists, the US and Israel, are scared sh*tless that you may succeed.
Yes. Our killing of the general was an act against international law. It did not matter that the Pentagon said he was a great help in the fight against ISIS.
This should be no surprise, because the last guy already had the Ayatollah’s approval for all of this. That has not changed.