The Coming U.S.-Iran Dialogue »
Posted By tehranchik 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Political NewsWhat demands might Iran make in a negotiation with the United States? It wants to protect its independence and its Islamic revolution against external attack. It wants to be recognized as a regional power. It wants a pacified Iraq on its border, one which will never again pose a lethal threat like that of Saddam Hussein. In practice, this means an Iraq under friendly Shia leadership. It would like to see a pacified and friendly Afghanistan and Pakistan, two countries with which it shares a border. Iran would also like to be accepted as a member of a Gulf security structure, and to reassure its Gulf neighbors that it respects their sovereignty.
Above all, Iran would like to contain Israel's aggressive militarism, prevent the recurrence of its violent assaults on Lebanon and Gaza, and contribute to the emergence of an independent Palestinian state – ambitions it shares with much of the Arab and Muslim world. If the United States wants Iran to drop its guard, it will need to consider this range of demands very seriously.
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Thinker229 months, 2 weeks ago
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FTA: Above all, Iran would like to contain Israel's aggressive militarism, prevent the recurrence of its violent assaults on Lebanon and Gaza, and contribute to the emergence of an independent Palestinian state – ambitions it shares with much of the Arab and Muslim world.
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Iranian President as well as his religious boss, the Supreme Leader of Iran, repeatedly declared that Israel should be DESTROYED. This means that someone is lying here, either the authors of the article or the leaders of Iran. I personally do not think that the authors of the article above know the goals of Iranian leaders better than the Iranian leaders themselves.-
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Dionys9 months, 2 weeks ago
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The Iranian President is about third or fourth 'in command.' If you paid attention to even the most basic history or news reports regarding the power structure, you'd understand that he doesn't have any executive power but is almost exclusively used as the 'angry mouthpiece' of the Iranian government -- he represents the extreme so that issues can be settled somewhere in the middle.
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"I personally do not think that the authors of the article above know the goals of Iranian leaders better than the Iranian leaders themselves. "
But somehow you do?
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hyperbola9 months, 2 weeks ago
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Actually you are lying thinker. That is not what the Iranian leader said at all.
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What he actually said is that a racist, apartheid, zionist state like Israel has no place in the modern world. A majority of the world's jews agree with him. -
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Ratskii9 months, 2 weeks ago
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Thinker, Farsi speakers who examined the statement that he supposedly made interpreted it as closer to: "According to the Iman, the government that resides in Jerusalem will one day fade into the dustbins of history."
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That's a long from threatening to destroy Israel.
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