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pampango

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3. Not to worry. "Supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei rebuffs US offer of direct talks."
Sun Feb 10, 2013, 02:07 PM
Feb 2013
Supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei says talks suggested by US vice-president would not solve the problem between them.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, has turned down an offer of direct talks made by US Vice-President Joe Biden this week, saying they would not solve the problem between them.

"Some naive people like the idea of negotiating with America, however, negotiations will not solve the problem," Khamenei said in a speech to officials and members of Iran's air force carried on his official website.

"American policy in the Middle East has been destroyed and Americans now need to play a new card. That card is dragging Iran into negotiations."

"That offer stands but it must be real and tangible," Biden said in a speech in Munich.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/02/20132712135063966.html


Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is on his way out and has never had the power that Khamenei has. Ahmadinejad talks but no one in the Iranian government listens to him.

Our warmonging neocon chickenhawks and Iran's hard liners keep each other in business with right wing rhetoric. Khamenei is the real power in Iran so the dance will continue.
Oh no! sulphurdunn Feb 2013 #1
Subtext . . .? another_liberal Feb 2013 #2
No subtext. sulphurdunn Feb 2013 #4
Yes, . . . another_liberal Feb 2013 #6
Not to worry. "Supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei rebuffs US offer of direct talks." pampango Feb 2013 #3
It seems like sulphurdunn Feb 2013 #5
Maybe he has just John2 Feb 2013 #7
What year do you think this is? nt Dreamer Tatum Feb 2013 #15
You tell me, sulphurdunn Feb 2013 #17
Maybe that means they have a few bombs in a safe place daleo Feb 2013 #8
The only difference, which so many here seem to "forget,... Behind the Aegis Feb 2013 #9
This message was self-deleted by its author awoke_in_2003 Feb 2013 #10
In relation to my post that distinction doesn't really matter daleo Feb 2013 #12
That puts Israel sulphurdunn Feb 2013 #18
So it makes it OK in your book. Good to know, and hardly surprising. Behind the Aegis Feb 2013 #19
It doesn't make it sulphurdunn Feb 2013 #20
They have radiation weapons . . . another_liberal Feb 2013 #11
We have thousands sulphurdunn Feb 2013 #21
No doubt . . . another_liberal Feb 2013 #22
c'mon...next step..argue about quadrature Feb 2013 #13
Yes, all we have to do is convert everyone in the US to (Sh ia) Islam, provide tactical 24601 Feb 2013 #14
It seems that they first need to sort out their own power struggles. Beacool Feb 2013 #16
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