Posted on 03/31/2009 2:08:07 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
THE HAGUE | Top U.S. envoy Richard C. Holbrooke met Tuesday with a senior Iranian official, in the Obama administration's first direct diplomatic contact with the Islamic republic.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters the brief meeting would not be the last.
In another unprecedented move, Mrs. Clinton instructed her delegation to an international conference on Afghanistan to hand to the Iranians a letter asking that Tehran help return three American citizens known or thought to be in Iran to the United States.
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton passes the table with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, center, and Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, right, at the start of the Afghanistan Conference in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday March 31, 2009.
THE HAGUE | Top U.S. envoy Richard C. Holbrooke met Tuesday with a senior Iranian official, in the Obama administration's first direct diplomatic contact with the Islamic republic.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters the brief meeting would not be the last.
In another unprecedented move, Mrs. Clinton instructed her delegation to an international conference on Afghanistan to hand to the Iranians a letter asking that Tehran help return three American citizens known or thought to be in Iran to the United States.
"In the course of the conference today, our special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, had a brief and cordial exchange with the head of the Iranian delegation," Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad Mehdi Akhoundzadeh, the secretary told reporters at the end of the one-day event, adding, "They agreed to stay in touch."
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This should be interesting. I wonder what all was said in this meeting.
The best post of the day. Iran will look at our officals and say that they are not pursuing a nuclear bomb and that will be the end of it. As is the past with Iraq and Syria, Israel will once again do the dirty work.
Probably lots of pandering and concessions from our side. My guess is no balls BO will give up one of our cities if they promise not to attack the rest.
Foolish, foolish people.
You either destroy evil it, or become evil.
You cannot stop evil by capitulating.
“but Mr. Netanyahu, Iran is our friend. They are simply misunderstood and your hate mongering and genocidal ways will not help the situation”
how many butts were kissed?
The Iranians are smarter than that. Obama is clay in their vile fingers. Evil squared!
Overheard at the meeting:
Holbrooke: Can we send some ACORN volunteers to Iran for a terrorist training camp orientation? And can we get some of those black face masks for them?
/sarc
“You either destroy evil it, or become evil.
You cannot stop evil by capitulating.”
Capitulating is just the first step towards becoming.
What I wouldn’t give to have an ear in this meeting!
Egads! I would hope not.
Benjamin Netanyahu is right. Just kill the mullahs.
If I weere POTUS, I wouldn’t give up anything. BHO just sucks!
“After leaving the cloak room, The two spoke no more.”
“After leaving the cloak room, The two spoke no more.”
They didn’t need too, after they just stuck their ‘daggers’ in the backs of the American people.
This is going to be so easy. We no longer need to worry about the next election.
The Iranians are going to take care of it for us. In the not too distant future, Iran will have it’s Nukes and follow it’s dreams... then, Obama will no longer be living in the White House.
Of course, that’s just the upside.
ogoatse 
when good and evil compromise, evil always wins...
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