Nice agenda push, Zionist MSM!
What a straw man the Iranian president is, too!
"Iranian warns against bluster; A possible jab at Ahmadinejad" by Ramin Mostaghim and Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times | July 2, 2008
TEHRAN - A confidant of Iran's political and religious authority took a veiled swipe at the country's president in a sign of strain within the leadership over handling international opposition to Iran's nuclear program.
Ali Akbar Velayati, who serves as the top foreign policy adviser to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, warned in a newspaper article published yesterday that Iranian officials must avoid making "provocative" statements, a directive widely viewed as aimed at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his loyalists.
In another challenge to the president, Velayati also spoke positively about incentives presented by European foreign policy chief Javier Solana on behalf of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany. The plans were aimed at persuading Iran to stop enriching uranium. He stopped well short of advocating a suspension of Iran's enrichment program, a particular demand stressed by the United States as a precondition for talks.
"Americans wanted Iran not to accept Solana," Velayati told the hard-line daily newspaper Jomhouri Islami, or Islamic Republic. "Therefore our interests imply that we should embrace Solana."
Velayati's remarks were among the strongest indicators of a split within Iran's opaque leadership circle over how best to handle the standoff with the West and Israel over the country's nuclear program.
As if ISRAEL is the TRAILER in the matter!
Fuck you, Zionist shit bags!!!
Everyone knows that ISRAEL is PUSHING THIS SHIT!!!!
A media report by a news organization close to the pragmatic chair of Iran's expediency council, Ahmadinejad rival Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, suggested Iran may be willing to suspend or curtail uranium enrichment for a six-week period during which negotiations would take place.
Iran says it is enriching uranium for peaceful civilian energy production while Western powers suspect it is building an eventual nuclear weapons program.
In recent weeks, the rhetoric has reached a fever pitch on both sides, with widespread talk of Israel and the United States possibly carrying out a preemptive war against Iran and threats of retaliation on Tehran's part if there is a conflict. Ahmadinejad has repeatedly called for Israel's destruction and ruled out suspension of the uranium enrichment program as the basis for talks with the West.
It just never stops -- but I may!!!
I'm tired of this Zionist propaganda passing itself off as "news."
But Velayati warned Iranian officials to watch their rhetoric while Iran was officially considering the incentives package, which included proposals for economic, political and security cooperation with the West if Iran scaled back key parts of its nuclear program.
Iran's major international opponents "weigh every single word said in nuclear policy, and we should be cautious and weigh our words too," he said. Iranian "officials, experts and politicians should avoid illogical, provocative statements."
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"The United States and Israel "are seeking a pretext to show the world that Iran does not want negotiation," he said.
"We think now at this juncture, we can negotiate," he said. "We should pay attention... keep on negotiating with every single European country."
US officials dismissed an ABC news report on Monday that an unnamed senior US defense official said there was an increasing likelihood that Israel would attack Iran over its nuclear program."
Why cut that, Globe?
Iran seeming to reasonable?
