Currently, the President of Iran has leveled words of Anti-Semetic rhetoric that denies the existance of Israel, while, benefitting his political ambitions. He is also politically engaged in Southern Lebanon with entities that have opposed the existance of Israel.
While Egypt and Jordan has sought diligently a peace between Israel and Palestine, it is being undermined by Iran's purpose of disruption as a means to their national security. Peace in the Middle East, in any measure, will not be possible unless Iran is a part of it.
The issues are many and the path forward is mired with land mines, but, to simply threaten war with Iran is unrealistic and counter-productive to any peace for the Middle East.
In contrast to the demands upon Iran to stop its nuclear enrichment program and return to productive relations with The West the USA has to reflect on its aggressive posture. Insuring the safety of the Iranian people includes the cessation of the political rhetoric and laying the ground work of mutual trust and expectations.
Iran's denial of the world as it exists rather than as its president wants it, lies in the 'void' the issue in fact that the USA, under Bush, has walked away from the Non-Proliferation Treaty as well as the ABM Treaty with Russia.
When a Free World country acts in aggression, it endangers its own freedom, populous, democracy, the well being of other people and discards any progress made in peace to a world safe for all peoples. The USA in alliance with other great nations have a strong defense of its populous and principles, however, to become an aggressor nation as it has under the Bush/Cheney War Machine is to lose far more than it can ever gain. The reality of today speaks loud and clear to that TRUTH !
Office of the SpokesmanWashington, DC
May 2, 2007
U.S. Participates in 2007 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee Meeting in Vienna (click here)
States Party to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) will convene April 30 to May 11 in Vienna, Austria, for the first session of a review process that will discuss the operation of the Treaty and how best to fulfill its purpose. The NPT includes close to 190 member states and is second only to the United Nations in membership size. This meeting of the NPT Preparatory Committee is the first of three meetings that will precede, on an annual basis, an NPT Review Conference in 2010 that is the core of the review process....
President George W. Bush (R) leads Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan into the G20 Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy at the National Building Museum in Washington, November 15, 2008.
REUTERS/Jim Young
Iran says won't hinder Turkish mediation with U.S. (click here)
Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:22am EST
By Hossein Jaseb
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Monday it would not hinder any Turkish bid to mediate between the Islamic Republic and the new U.S. administration but cautioned that its differences with Washington were deep-rooted....
...Relations with Iran will be one of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's main foreign policy challenges when he takes office in January. He has said he would harden sanctions but has also held out the possibility of direct talks.
Iranian officials have reacted cautiously to Obama's election, saying it reflects the American people's desire for fundamental change in U.S. policies at home and abroad but that it remains to be seen whether he will live up to expectations.
Asked about Erdogan's remarks to the New York Times that Obama's election opened new opportunities for a shift in Iran- U.S. relations and that Ankara would be ready to mediate, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi said:
"We think the comments ... stem from Turkish goodwill and good and growing neighborly ties between Iran and Turkey, so we will certainly not raise any obstacles."
"But the reality is that the issue and problems between Iran and the United states go beyond the usual political problems between two countries," he told a news conference.
"SLOGANS"
The United States severed ties with Iran shortly after its 1979 Islamic revolution and is now spearheading efforts to isolate the country over sensitive nuclear work the West suspects is aimed at making bombs, a charge Tehran denies.
"Around 30 years after the ... revolution the Americans have had negative performance toward us," Qashqavi said. "Mr Obama has come forward with slogans and now we will have to see whether the change in orientation is serious or not."
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad congratulated Obama after his November 4 victory, but other officials in Tehran later criticized the U.S. president-elect's call for an international effort to stop Iran developing a nuclear bomb.
Iran, the world's fourth-largest crude oil producer, says its nuclear programme is aimed at generating electricity....
