Iran Warns U.S. Over New Sanctions
According to Al-Jazeera:
The Iranian president has warned that a new round of UN sanctions against his country over its disputed nuclear programme could permanently damage Tehran’s ties with the United States.
So much for all of Obama’s talk about reaching out to Iran, even going so far as to correctly acknowledge it as the Islamic Republic. Remember his message, back in March, tactically delivered at Norwuz, the Persian New Year? As if to symbolize a new dawn in Iranian-U.S. relations?
Obama’s message said the United States seeks engagement with Iran “that is honest and grounded in mutual respect,” but cautioned that the country cannot “take its rightful place in the community of nations . . . through terror or arms, but rather through peaceful actions that demonstrate the true greatness of the Iranian people and civilization.
More hopeful rhetoric backed by zero substance or commitment. Maybe Ahmadinejad doesn’t represent all Iranians, but most Iranians do want nuclear energy as a clean and efficient option. So in the U.S. persistently denying Iran a right to that technology and threatening it with sanctions that further cripple the people economically, exactly how does that represent “mutual respect”?
For his part, Ahmadinejad could be more open to U.N. inspection of the Iranian nuclear program, but one can hardly fault his skepticism towards a body that has openly disregarded, ignored, and walked out on him in relaying the interests of his nation and his people. Especially considering that all of the rhetoric coming out of the U.S. and the U.N. revolves around stopping Iran’s nuclear program, not merely making sure that it is exclusively for energy.
There is also the small matter of the double standard of the United States’ hard-line against nuclear proliferation, while completely ignoring Israel not being a signatory to the treaty. Or the hypocrisy of the U.S. criticizing any country for nuclear ambitions when to date we are the only country to ever use nuclear weapons against anyone. Not only that, but there’s also the recent affirmation that military action against Iran is “not off the table”.
All this, under the pretext of “mutual respect”? Yeah, okay.
The US's power is waning. America just needs to finally learn its place in world, sit down, and shut the hell up already.
Shit like this, by the way, is why I never got my hopes up about an Obama Administration. After all, the only reason he won was that he was preceded by Bush.
Fuck…millions of Americans were willing to put Palin after that bullshit.