Khamenei slams Republican letter on Iran, hits at U.S. 'backstabbing'

[steve2470]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/12/us-iran-nuclear-khamenei-idUSKBN0M810L20150312

(Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader hit out on Thursday at a letter by U.S. Republican senators threatening to undo any nuclear deal between Washington and Tehran, saying he was worried because the United States was known for "backstabbing", Mehr news agency reported.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei added at a meeting with President Hassan Rouhani and senior clerics that whenever negotiators made progress, the Americans became "harsher, tougher and coarser", Mehr reported.

The letter signed by 47 Republican senators warned Iran that any nuclear deal made with U.S. President Barack Obama could last only as long as he remained in office, in an unusual intervention into U.S. foreign policy-making.

Mehr quoted Khamenei as saying: "Of course I am worried, because the other side is known for opacity, deceit and backstabbing."

[madokie]

1. the coup of '53 comes to mind

we installed the puppet

[Cha]

2. K&R!! mahalo steve

[steve2470]

3. mahalo Cha, hope your weather is lovely in Hawai'i! nt

[Cha]

4. It's pretty lovely.. how's yours?

[steve2470]

5. also lovely, thanks for asking! nt

[SCVDem]

6. The worst part?

He is absolutely right.

Maybe Americans should study history. Real history, not the right-wing sanitized stuff where we are perfect.

[randome]

8. Right. Like Iran is pure as the driven snow.

Sure, America has betrayed its principles on occasion. But we're not the evil empire some imagine us to be.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]

[SCVDem]

9. To this day we are screwing the Native Americans!

Look up Apache Leap and Rio Tinto. How about stealing tribal lands for the KXL pipeline?

War crimes, invading Iraq based on lies and on and on.

Oh yeah, we are an evil empire paying off the world in bribes and aid so they like us.

Iran is not inherently bad, just the government. Most of the people actually want to be like us.

[Rex]

10. HA! Fat chance. It seems some would rather keep stumbling forward

while yelling at the rest of us that DO pay attention.

[asiliveandbreathe]

7. Does it matter that many of the top Iranian leaders are US educated

Good read...too bad Tehran Tom or Taliban Tom didn't get the message..

http://www.businessinsider.com/does-it-matter-if-irans-leaders-are-us-educated-2014-10

Thank You Mr. President for all you do, against all odds...

The question - so what are WE THE PEOPLE going to do about it? - accept the rethug response NOW, it was all a joke??Who the hell elected these morons...

[spanone]

11. republicans = 'opacity, deceit and backstabbing'...very astute