Posted on 04/26/2009 5:25:28 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said it would be "fine with us" if the Palestinians reach a "two state" peace deal with Israel, despite his full-throated opposition to the Jewish nation.
The firebrand leader, in an interview broadcast Sunday on US network ABC, appeared unhappy with President Barack Obama's failure to return a message of greetings and said nuclear talks could only proceed with a clear agenda.
After triggering a storm with anti-Israel remarks at a UN racism conference in Geneva, Ahmadinejad attacked Obama's "support of the massacre of Gazans, in support for the criminals who were responsible for that atrocity."
But having previously called for Israel to be erased from the map, he appeared to hold out a potential olive branch in backing the Palestinians' right to pursue a deal for statehood alongside Iran's arch-enemy.
"Whatever decision they take is fine with us. We are not going to determine anything. Whatever decision they take, we will support that," Ahmadinejad said via an interpreter in the interview, which was taped Wednesday in Tehran.
"We think that this is the right of the Palestinian people. However we fully expect other states to do so as well," Ahmadinejad said, without saying whether Iran might recognize the Jewish nation as part of a "two state" agreement.
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has set the bar high for statehood by arguing that only a referendum open to all Palestinians, including post-1948 refugees but excluding immigrant Jews, can decide the land's future.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, pictured on April 20, 2009, has said it would be "fine with us" if the Palestinians reach a "two state" peace deal with Israel, despite his full-throated opposition to the Jewish nation. (AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)
This is funny!
It might get us all killed, but, it is still funny!
Bam Bam will go there and suck up to him too,not even having a clue he’s being baited again.
He’s probably thinking a two-state solution will make it easier to target the warheads. Of course, he probably won’t lose too much sleep if he wipes out a few hundred thousand Arabs along the way. Its the cost of Jihad.
I think he’s really saying...
“Hey Obama , rotate on this.”
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has set the bar high for statehood by arguing that only a referendum open to all Palestinians, including post-1948 refugees but excluding immigrant Jews, can decide the land's future.Khamenei's head on a pole would make a nice video clip.
I think I’ve read this story once or twice. Doesn’t the peace plan fall apart in 3 1/2 years?
This whole peace talk is a joke-esp. with Ahm-a-nut-job fool running his mouth out
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