Posted on 01/26/2009 12:55:14 PM PST by EagleUSA
UNITED NATIONS – President Barack Obama's administration will engage in "direct diplomacy" with Iran, the newly installed U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Monday.
Not since before the 1979 Iranian revolution are U.S. officials believed to have conducted wide-ranging direct diplomacy with Iranian officials. But U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice warned that Iran must meet U.N. Security Council demands to suspend uranium enrichment before any talks on its nuclear program.
"The dialogue and diplomacy must go hand in hand with a very firm message from the United States and the international community that Iran needs to meet its obligations as defined by the Security Council. And its continuing refusal to do so will only cause pressure to increase," she told reporters during a brief question-and-answer session.
Her comments, reflecting Obama's signals for improved relations with America's foes after eight years under President George W. Bush, came shortly after meeting with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on her first day in her new job.
Iran still considers the U.S. the "Great Satan," but a day after Obama was sworn in, said it was "ready for new approaches by the United States." Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said his country would study the idea of allowing the U.S. to open a diplomatic office in Tehran, the first since 1979.
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Badeye predicts it will end up being another fools errand, ala Maddy Notsobright and North Korea.
Except somebody might just get nuked as a result.
I prefer diplomacy via JDAM’s.
And the difference with the Bush policy is? Zero.
It’s the same call of ceasing uranium enrichment as has been ongoing.
Direct Diplomacy with Ahmadinejad in Iran ....
But don’t you dare listen to Rush Limbaugh in America if you want to get along with ‘this government’.
HMMM... I wonder.... If the Iran leadership listens to Limbaugh.... Would 0bama still negotiate with them?
LLS
Whadda ya gonna do—talk Iran’s supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to death or pay him off. That’s the MO for liberal leftist RATS like obozo & co.
Direct Diplomacy with Ahmadinejad in Iran ....
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Our enemies, including Iran, are going to play this idiot Marxist to the hilt. I would estimate they see him an easier touch than the Clintons —
Delusional morons.
But U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice warned that Iran must meet U.N. Security Council demands to suspend uranium enrichment before any talks on its nuclear program.
6 months ago called. It wants it’s news back.
We gonna blow up Israel, non-negotiable. Let’s talk.
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But U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice warned that Iran must meet U.N. Security Council demands to suspend uranium enrichment before any talks on its nuclear program.
So, let me see if I understand this correctly. The Obama regime will engage in direct diplomacy with Iran, however the most important subject, Iran's development of nuclear weapons-grade uranium and likely also their development of nuclear weapons, will be off the table, because Obama's UN Ambassador Susan Rice has stated that the US will not discuss it until Iran has suspended uranium enrichment.
Obviously (obvious, that is, to anybody but an ambassador), since Iran will clearly not suspend uranium enrichment, that means that the Obama regime is going to sit down and talk to Iran about exactly what? Perhaps they plan to discuss ways in which stimulus payments can be used to increase US imports of shish-kebab and Persian rugs...
What a bunch of dolts...
People want an adult in the White House, not “a dolt” in the White House...
What a bunch of dolts...
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Dolts that are very dangerous. They are working very hard to endanger and rip apart this country.
They may call it diplomacy, but muzzl’ems have a different word for it: taquiya.
“Concealing or disguising one’s beliefs, convictions, ideas, feelings, opinions, and/or strategies at a time of imminent danger, whether now or later in time, to save oneself from physical and/or mental injury.”
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