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Good News!!! Obama offers new start with Iran

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Solve et Coagula
 
Reply Fri 20 Mar, 2009 02:18 am
Good News!!! Obama offers new start with Iran

Reuters " U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the Iranian people, in this frame grab of videotaped speech released …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) " President Barack Obama issued an unprecedented videotaped appeal to Iran on Friday offering a "new beginning" of diplomatic engagement to turn the page on decades of U.S. policy toward America's longtime foe.

"My administration is now committed to diplomacy that addresses the full range of issues before us, and to pursuing constructive ties," Obama said in a message released to select Middle East broadcast outlets timed for an Iranian holiday celebration.

Obama went further than he has since taking office on January 20 in extending an olive branch to Tehran, which has been locked in bitter disputes with Washington over Iranian nuclear ambitions and support for militant Islamic groups.

The Obama administration -- in a major shift from former President George W. Bush's isolation policy toward Iran, which he once branded part of an "axis of evil" -- has expressed an openness to face-to-face diplomatic contacts with Tehran.

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Woiyo9
 
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Reply Fri 20 Mar, 2009 06:28 am
Good news for who?
Solve et Coagula
 
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Reply Fri 20 Mar, 2009 06:34 am
@Woiyo9,
Good for the World, America, Israel, Middle East ...
Woiyo9
 
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Reply Fri 20 Mar, 2009 01:01 pm
@Solve et Coagula,
Really? Why do you think that? Be specific and use your own words for a change.
Solve et Coagula
 
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Reply Sat 21 Mar, 2009 03:46 am
@Woiyo9,
Peace is better than war, if this is not specific enough to understand, you might think twice Wink
Woiyo9
 
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Reply Sun 22 Mar, 2009 06:26 am
@Solve et Coagula,
Who is at war with Iran?

We have no interests inIran.

Why does theUS need relations with a dictatorship ?

You need to do better in your responses. Your good at using other peoples words, yet you struggle with your own words.
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revel
 
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Reply Mon 23 Mar, 2009 06:14 am
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Karim Sadjadpour, an Iranian-American expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said that Mr. Obama’s message would force hard-line Iranian officials " like Mr. Ahmadinejad " to put up or shut up on prospects for better relations with the United States.

“What this message does is, it puts the hard-liners in a difficult position, because where the Bush administration united disparate Iranian political leaders against a common threat, what Obama is doing is accentuating the cleavages in Iran,” Mr. Sadjadpour said. “It makes the hard-liners look increasingly like they are the impediment.”



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