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In depthCloseIran ready to work with US on Iraq
By Roula Khalaf and Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran
Published: September 30 2007 19:05 | Last updated: September 30 2007 19:05
Iran is ready to help the US stabilise Iraq if Washington presents a timetable for a withdrawal of its troops, Tehran’s top security official said on Sunday.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Ali Larijani, head of the Supreme National Security Council, which answers to Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, rejected Washington’s accusations that Tehran is providing weapons to Iraqi militias, insisting the trouble with Iraq was that the US administration was pursuing a “dead-end strategy”.
Mr Larijani maintained it was time world powers realised Iran’s nuclear progress could not be reversed and that they should enter into negotiations with Tehran without preconditions.
Pledging to continue co*operation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog, he made clear, however, that Iran would not suspend its *uranium enrichment programme – a key Security Council demand. But he said he was open to “ideas being put on the table” in forthcoming talks with Javier Solana, the European Union foreign policy chief, to resolve the nuclear stand-off.
Mr Larijani suggested that both the US Democratic party and the British were getting it right in Iraq. The Democrats’ push for a timetable for withdrawal “seems to be logical”, he said, and the British were “more intelligent than the Americans”, having made the “necessary adjustments” and retreated to Basra airport.
“If they [the Americans] have a clear definition of a timetable we’ll help them materialise it,” Mr Larijani said. “If the US is persisting with its mistakes, it shouldn’t ask for help from us.”
The US has repeatedly accused Iran of undermining security in Iraq by supplying advanced roadside bombs and Iranian-made rockets to Shia militias. The US Senate last week called for the *Revolutionary Guards, the elite force allegedly involved in Iraq, to be designated as a “foreign terrorist organisation”.
Political analysts say Iran’s strategy is to back the Shia-dominated government in Baghdad but also to ensure that the US does not leave Iraq emboldened to carry on another military campaign. Three rounds of talks between US and Iranian officials have been held in Baghdad but do not appear to have produced tangible results.
Mr Larijani, however, dismissed US accusations as “lies”. He said Iran had asked for names of Revolutionary Guard personnel that the US said were involved in helping Iraqi groups but that it had received no response.
He said Iran was the only country in the region to have supported the Iraqi government and the democratic process, while the US’s allies – by which he meant Arab governments – provided no assistance and worked against Washington.
He also claimed Tehran had information that US officials were holding talks with Izzat al-Douri, the former Ba’athist senior official who is said to be leading parts of the Sunni insurgency. “This is a disaster for the Iraqi people,” he said.
At a time of growing suspicion that either the US or Israel will resort to military strikes to prevent Tehran from pursuing its nuclear programme, Mr Larijani said Washington’s failures in Iraq should be a warning against embarking on a new “adventure”.
Refusing to specify what Tehran’s retaliation might be, he warned that the US should attack Iran if it wished “to receive Israel on a wheelchair” and predicted that Washington would be “sticking its hand into a *beehive”.
Addressing the nuclear programme, Mr Larijani said it had reached an advanced stage, providing Iran with a “full command of the technology” that no one could take away. “This status cannot be ignored. I’m surprised to hear [uranium enrichment] suspension is still being talked about.”
On Friday six world powers failed to agree on a new UN sanctions resolution but gave Iran until late next month to curb its nuclear programme and are now waiting for reports from the IAEA and from Mr Solana.
Iran agreed with the IAEA a “work plan” in late August, in which it pledged to clear up issues that have raised suspicions about its nuclear intentions. The deal encouraged Russia and China to block an immediate new round of sanctions but was criticised by the US and its European allies as vague and open-ended.
Mr Larijani said the agreement with the IAEA was not a delaying tactic. Whether all the issues would be cleared by next month, however, depended on the speed with which the nuclear watchdog operated, he said. “The more acceleration there is by the agency, the faster it will be completed.”
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In depthCloseIran ready to work with US on Iraq
By Roula Khalaf and Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran
Published: September 30 2007 19:05 | Last updated: September 30 2007 19:05
Iran is ready to help the US stabilise Iraq if Washington presents a timetable for a withdrawal of its troops, Tehran’s top security official said on Sunday.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Ali Larijani, head of the Supreme National Security Council, which answers to Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, rejected Washington’s accusations that Tehran is providing weapons to Iraqi militias, insisting the trouble with Iraq was that the US administration was pursuing a “dead-end strategy”.
Mr Larijani maintained it was time world powers realised Iran’s nuclear progress could not be reversed and that they should enter into negotiations with Tehran without preconditions.
Pledging to continue co*operation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog, he made clear, however, that Iran would not suspend its *uranium enrichment programme – a key Security Council demand. But he said he was open to “ideas being put on the table” in forthcoming talks with Javier Solana, the European Union foreign policy chief, to resolve the nuclear stand-off.
Mr Larijani suggested that both the US Democratic party and the British were getting it right in Iraq. The Democrats’ push for a timetable for withdrawal “seems to be logical”, he said, and the British were “more intelligent than the Americans”, having made the “necessary adjustments” and retreated to Basra airport.
“If they [the Americans] have a clear definition of a timetable we’ll help them materialise it,” Mr Larijani said. “If the US is persisting with its mistakes, it shouldn’t ask for help from us.”
The US has repeatedly accused Iran of undermining security in Iraq by supplying advanced roadside bombs and Iranian-made rockets to Shia militias. The US Senate last week called for the *Revolutionary Guards, the elite force allegedly involved in Iraq, to be designated as a “foreign terrorist organisation”.
Political analysts say Iran’s strategy is to back the Shia-dominated government in Baghdad but also to ensure that the US does not leave Iraq emboldened to carry on another military campaign. Three rounds of talks between US and Iranian officials have been held in Baghdad but do not appear to have produced tangible results.
Mr Larijani, however, dismissed US accusations as “lies”. He said Iran had asked for names of Revolutionary Guard personnel that the US said were involved in helping Iraqi groups but that it had received no response.
He said Iran was the only country in the region to have supported the Iraqi government and the democratic process, while the US’s allies – by which he meant Arab governments – provided no assistance and worked against Washington.
He also claimed Tehran had information that US officials were holding talks with Izzat al-Douri, the former Ba’athist senior official who is said to be leading parts of the Sunni insurgency. “This is a disaster for the Iraqi people,” he said.
At a time of growing suspicion that either the US or Israel will resort to military strikes to prevent Tehran from pursuing its nuclear programme, Mr Larijani said Washington’s failures in Iraq should be a warning against embarking on a new “adventure”.
Refusing to specify what Tehran’s retaliation might be, he warned that the US should attack Iran if it wished “to receive Israel on a wheelchair” and predicted that Washington would be “sticking its hand into a *beehive”.
Addressing the nuclear programme, Mr Larijani said it had reached an advanced stage, providing Iran with a “full command of the technology” that no one could take away. “This status cannot be ignored. I’m surprised to hear [uranium enrichment] suspension is still being talked about.”
On Friday six world powers failed to agree on a new UN sanctions resolution but gave Iran until late next month to curb its nuclear programme and are now waiting for reports from the IAEA and from Mr Solana.
Iran agreed with the IAEA a “work plan” in late August, in which it pledged to clear up issues that have raised suspicions about its nuclear intentions. The deal encouraged Russia and China to block an immediate new round of sanctions but was criticised by the US and its European allies as vague and open-ended.
Mr Larijani said the agreement with the IAEA was not a delaying tactic. Whether all the issues would be cleared by next month, however, depended on the speed with which the nuclear watchdog operated, he said. “The more acceleration there is by the agency, the faster it will be completed.”
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I really don't see a problem with this.
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Iran doesn't have nukes.
:(
When is America going to wake up to this?
It will be like 10 years before they could have nukes.
They are pursuing nuclear power.
I love the line about
"America should attack Iran if it wants to have Israel handed over on a wheel chair" ...
that is fucking classic.
Go IRAN.
Don't back down!
If I opened it now would you not understand?
they are sworn to wipe isreal off they map..they are on our side...so we stand against them...
only if you prefer to read dangerous and deliberately false translations of what was said.
"They" have said nothing, one mostly powerless figure head quoted an old leader as saying "the occupying regime of israel must fade from the pages of history" ... which somehow became "wiped of the map" ...
you do the math.
this was in a speech talking about outmoded political philosophies of violence and force ... and referenced multiple other "regimes" such as the old soviet regime which fell from INTERNAL pressures ... NOT FORCE!
Yeah!
Fuck yeah!
Lets go bomb every goddamn country in the world,
because they all might get nukes and blow us to shreds.
Fuck, lets start with the ones that have them ... lets get North Korea, Pakistan, India, and ISRAEL ...
lets blow them all the fuck off the map.
Hey, you can't say you want to wipe US off the map, or our little master of puppets, the jews, goddamnit!
we are going to wipe YOU off the map ... even if you didn't say it ... because, damnit, you might be thinking it ... fuck, my president told me you are a card carying member of the "axis of evil" ... you can't be trusted ... of course, my president is as honest as they come. HE has NEVER lied. YOU are a liar. YOU must die. Your people are scum. Anyone who is not an American is expendable. This is OUR world. WE are the new empire. WE alone have the sole right to do whatever the fuck we want. WE rule. YOU die! DIE DIE DIE!
Oh.
and PEACE AND FREEDOM!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
If I opened it now would you not understand?
he said it, so whatever
about the rest - we finally agree!!!!
I hear that in Iran you can do or say anything you want (even if you're a women or gay!). and even though the president is elected by their supreme religious leader, Iran is actually secular and democratic!
I LOVE THIS COUNTRY!
I wouldnt vote for you anyway.
Iran may not be the ideal country to live in and they are probably a huge pain in the ass in that region but military actions is not the only answer to dealing with them.
Also did you ever think that the Iranian government is so hostile towards us because of our previous medddling in their internal affairs. I mean us helping over-throw the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran in order to install the corrupt government of the Shah probably doesn't sit to well with them.
same ol same ol...
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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how do you feel about china? they are responsible for the killing in burma. must be our fault.
I believe in talks... WITH VERIFICATION. In foriegn diplomacy, never take anyone's words without them proving to you that what they are saying is the truth. We did this with the Soviets... I don't see why we cannot do it with Iran. Trust should not exist in diplomatic negotiations... verify and validate.
Hail, Hail!!!