Iran Says US Holding Secret Talks to Restore Diplomatic Ties

INN ^ | 11/10/2014, 7:35 AM | Ari Yashar

[Olog-hai]

As the US and world powers approach a November 24 deadline on nuclear talks with Iran, governmental sources in the Islamic regime have reported that they are conducting secret talks with America about renewing diplomatic ties for the first time in 35 years.

Iranian government advisers spoke to the British Times, and said secret talks with American officials have centered around the possibility of opening a US trade office in the Iranian capital of Tehran if a nuclear deal is reached.

Those talks are to continue this week, and according to the officials will take place in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, located just north of Iran on the Caspian Sea. …

[Ronin]

But don’t tell anyone! It’s a secret, donchaknow?

[piasa]

Congressional junket to Azerbaijan:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3188445/posts

[catfish1957]

When Ron White stated “You can’t fix stupid”, who knew it had such a prophetic government bend to it.

[matthew fuller]

Fundamental destruction of the USA coming right along, ahead of schedule.

[jsanders2001]

Translation: taxpayers are about to be on the hook once again for billions of dollars given as a gift to Iran for their cooperation. Months later the U.S. finds out that Iran is in alignment with ISIS and is buying weapons for them with part of the funds while using some of it to complete the final stages of their nuclear program so they can give ISIS nukes to bring across our unguarded Southern borders and kill the white devils for once and all...

[faithhopecharity]

O will do everything he can possibly get away with to sell out Amerika before he’s required to leave office (and possibly the country, since nobody knows how he got in here in the first place.... why do you think he’s threatening so hard to “legalize” illegal immigrants, anyway?)

[Mark17]

That is probably pretty close to the truth.

[nathanbedford]

The most urgent existential threat to America is not Isis but Iran possessed of a nuclear bomb.

So armed, Iran would upset the balance of power not just in the region of the Persian Gulf but in the entire world. Even though America has surpassed Saudi Arabia in the export of oil, the Iranians would nevertheless be able to spike the price of oil by choking off the flow from the region causing immense economic damage worldwide. When Iran gets the bomb it will undoubtedly trigger an arms race in the region for nations like Saudi Arabia to arm up to defend themselves against the Iranian Shia regime. The world becomes infinitely more dangerous with these nations in this volatile region possessed of atomic weapons. Expect the Iranians to make deals with the Chinese which could accelerate the long-term threat to America which is an ever more aggressive and powerful China.

Finally, there is a real danger that ideologues in Iran might hand off bombs to terror groups to smuggle into the United States for detonation in various American cities.

It is clear that Obama is in full appeasement mode determined to accommodate the Iranians fixed intention to acquire nuclear weapons. They will also be equipped with delivery systems, both conventional and unconventional, posing a threat to our allies in Europe, Israel, and the mainland of the United States itself. It is not clear whether Obama has succeeded in intimidating Israel and preventing Israel from unilaterally attacking Iranian nuclear facilities. But it is clear that Obama will himself never act militarily to stop Iran getting the bomb.

This is a shameful capitulation by this administration which we have predicted since the inauguration of Obama six years ago.

Now to make an observation which no doubt will draw some fire: The war in Iraq was the wrong war against the wrong enemy at the wrong time resulting in incalculable costs to the United States including contributing to the election of Barack Obama, draining our treasury, and making the possibility of attacking Iranian nuclear facilities politically unpalatable. Not only has Iran gained relative to the United States, it is become more secure, more powerful and more dangerous as a result of our miscalculation in Iraq while America has become relatively weaker.

[Olog-hai]

No . . . the war in Iraq had a lot of potential. Positioning forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan is the right way to surround Iran. Thanks to liberal considerations and insane rules of engagement, the war in both countries got squandered and turned into a liberal fantasy of “democratizing” both occupied countries as though it turned them into mirror images of the USA (however, “democracy” is a great tool of tyrants, especially socialists of any stripe including Islamic socialists who reassert autocracy via elections).

Now watch another power bring its military into both Iraq and Afghanistan for the purpose of surrounding Iran. Everyone might be surprised who that will be.

[Olog-hai]

Plenty of evidence during the 2000s that Iran was backing Al-Qa’eda . . . and IS(IS/IL) is the next stage of the former “Al-Qa’eda In Iraq”. Why do so many people fall for the notion that any of these groups are really opposed to one another?

[Gene Eric]

Keep peace a secret and wear war on the sleeve... okay...

[nathanbedford]

No . . . the war in Iraq had a lot of potential.

So did Napoleon's invasion of Russia.

Positioning forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan is the right way to surround Iran.

Physical occupation of geography is a concept from the second world war which failed us in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and it is increasingly likely to produce minimal military advantage. In fact, Iraq has taught us that the price to occupy geography is simply too high for our democracy to sustain.

If one thinks that by producing a bloodbath the benefits of occupying geography can be obtained with minimal cost in American blood and treasure, one has to convince the reader that the American democracy would stand for such a strategy, especially in a war of "choice" which we engaged in Iraq. My view is that the country was divided before we went into Iraq, reacted negatively to the revelations coming out of Abu Ghraib, negative to the absence of finding any weapons of mass destruction in the wake of the invasion-especially nuclear weapons.

If the enemy is Iran why not bomb the nuclear facility in Iran rather than squandering blood and treasure in the sands of Iraq so that you can bomb Iran?

[onedoug]

islamists plot with other islamists, and we all know who gets screwed...again and again and again....

[Joe Boucher]

Iran ought be nuked not made friends with.