Ali Akbar Velayati, senior national
security advisor to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, said today Tehran is ready for
a final nuclear deal with the world powers over its nuclear program.
The official IRNA news agency quoted
Ali Akbar Velayati as saying the “situation is ready” for such a deal. (IRNA/AP, 17 December)
Velayati’s remark was an important sign that Iran was ready to go back to talks with major powers on implementation of the Geneva internim agreement. Iran walked out of those talks last Thursday after the U.S. blacklisted 19 Iranian companies for evading current sanctions.
Velayati’s remark was an important sign that Iran was ready to go back to talks with major powers on implementation of the Geneva internim agreement. Iran walked out of those talks last Thursday after the U.S. blacklisted 19 Iranian companies for evading current sanctions.
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Of course it is; Obama joins Reagan and Saddam in showing you that so long as you ignore the terrorist regime's lies ("artist's renderings") and treat them like the bottom feeding, incompetent, imbecile thieves, murderers and gangster they are -- they'll respond like all such people do, by folding.
Keep up the good work Obama/OFAC!
Most Terrorists come from the "Friendly" countries, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, Smaller Arab countries on Persian Gulf, Not one 9/11 terrorist committing the largest US domestic terrorism act were Iranians. Saudi Arabia funds terrorists, Pakistan trained and hide them for years in their capital, and yet US administrations shakes their hands, dine with them and make deals every day. Please your arguments are very logically flawed.
Iranian entities are designated as terrorist organizations by the u.s..
The issue here is if the U.S. violated the letter r the spirit of Geneva agreement by blacklisting 19 Iranian companies for violating Iran sanctions. The Iranians at first thought so, hence they walked out of the talks in Vienna hours after U.S. announced its action. The Americans thought they were well within the letter of agreement, that the sanctions except those identified in Geneva were still in full force, which would mean companies violating them needed to be blacklisted.
The "spirit" of agreement is an open-ended phrase with no precision. Politically, however, the U.S. was better off not to make the move now, for precisely fearing that it would be taken as a move against the agreement, and hence would strengthen the hands of Rouhani's opponent and the hard-right inside Iran.
In any case, the cooler heads have apparently prevailed and the talks on how to implement the interim agreement would resume soon, paving the way for full implementation of the 6-month interim agreement starting in January.
Politically, the US was certainly correct to make sure that the sanctions were still going to be enforced and that there would be no room for Iran to claim not to understand that
Iran has clearly stated its inherent right to a nuclear enrichment programme, whether or not the US recognises this is beside the point, and rightly so. The sanctions regime is straining at the seams, and the US is fighting a rare guard action to get the best deal possible before it declares victory and surrenders to reality.
There are no Rouhani opponents.There is only one regime and it's called the Islamic Republic with Khamenei as its leader. After his death there will be another moft khor in his place.
So? Reagan sold arms to Iran...Saddam was also a known criminal and designated as committing crimes against humanity but Mr. Rumsfeld went to Baghdad and shook his hands with a smile and made a deal with him. Point is superpower will deal with anyone when it is in their interest.Designations change and are only good for the paper they are written on.
Grifted-- the US isn't demanding an end to enrichment. the US is demanding that Iran end any military aspect to Iran's nuclear program....... and it's only an Iranian attempt to assemble nuclear weaponry that will take the US to move beyond sanctions to military action.
THAT'S the reality and that reality is one that Iran must avoid......
A terrorist entity accusing others of being terrorists is a joke.
@8:40pm
When the CIA and even Mossad are both claiming there is no evidence that Iran is building a nuclear weapon, what more do you want? Are the frequent IAEA inspections not enough? The 24/7 surveillance? The fact that Iran has capped enrichment at 5% and is destroying its stockpile of 20% enriched uranium? The Additional Protocols that Iran has again agreed to implement?
Iran could 100% dismantle it's nuclear program and wackjobs like Netanyahu will believe Iran is just a few days away till it acquires a nuke. Grow up and stop being so paranoid.
AnonymousDecember 17, 2013 at 8:40 PM
You`re quite wrong,irans nuclear program has had no military aspects for almost a decade and this has been well known by the west,the wests demand has always been zero enrichment and the dismantling of irans nuclear infrastructure and has attempted to use threats and sanctions to achieve this,ultimately the west has had no choice but to back down on these demands and accept both iranian enrichment and its stockpile of leu.Any military action on the part of the west would only provide iran with all the excuse it would need to leave the npt and reactivate its weapons program,if iran wanted to build a bomb all it would take to do so is the political decision
Nader UskowiDecember 17, 2013 at 5:43 PM
It was a stupid act on the part of the us that could`ve put the whole deal at risk,but then that was probably the point,this was a sop for the hawks in both parties,but it sets a very bad precedent,still hopefully iran will find some loop holes to its advantage,sauce for the goose as they say
There are no bigger "terrorists" on the face of this Earth than the U.S,UK & Israel! Not that you will ever be able to recognize this truth.
well, the only joke is your lack of logic and capability to argue against valid and factual points...
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