Belatedly Hillary Clinton Agrees With Khamenei And Ahmadinejad

May 21, 2009

“You know the Iranian nation is in principle and on religious grounds against the nuclear weapon. Nuclear weapons only incur high costs and have no use. They do not bring power to a nation,” [Khamenei] said.
Chief Cleric Says Iran Doesn’t Seek Nuclear Arms, NYT, June 3, 2008

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"We have no interest in building a nuclear weapon."
Interview with Iranian President Ahmadinejad, Spiegel, April 10, 2009

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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday she intends to explain to Iran it is not in its interest to acquire a nuclear weapon because it would spark a Middle East arms race.
Nuclear weapons are not in Iran’s interests: Clinton, AFP, May 21, 2009

But why does she think she needs to explain that?

Posted by b on May 21, 2009 at 11:34 UTC | Permalink

Comments

To tone down the anti-Iran sentiment. A lot of clumsy circumlocution. Remember Kerry was the big Iran appeaser.
No Iranian attack on Isr. or other. No attack (US – Isr) on Iran. Won’t happen.
It is just a way of jockeying influence, a card in the horse trading process, an ink-blot test. Huh diced metaphors, sorry.
Also, a way of reaffirming power, for all parties. Iran shows muscle to the voters, the others know it is fake but can sigh and gasp and pretend. Meanwhile, millions of Iraqis and Pakistanis are refugees… It is almost as if the US and Iran are secret allies…

Posted by: Tangerine | May 21 2009 12:51 utc | 1

Maybe she needs to repeatedly explain the obvious to the Iranians because she is childish and stupid, as the Israelis say.

Posted by: JohnH | May 21 2009 14:06 utc | 2

This morning my local paper carried an AP story that, but for one short paragraph about some official not believing Iran was near to creating a nuke, as nothing but an anti-Iran diatribe aimed at raising the level of anti-Iran sentiment in the US. Whose brilliant strategy is it to be so damn confrontational, as if we haven’t learned that threatening authoritarian regimes doesn’t just create more negatives for coming to accommodation. I know, we are run by the stupids, many of whom have no interest in accommodation and actually see endless war as our destiny.
As to the middle east arms race, exactly what does this mean? Surely Israel already possesses all the arms necessary for any race for the next three decades. And the US warning Iran about tensions and conflicts in their own backyard? I think they already know, and have little reason to be grateful for attempted schooling by Americans with less than a sterling record and a lot of ME blood on it’s hands.

Posted by: DonS | May 21 2009 15:17 utc | 3

We are not only run by the stupids, we have become a nation of stupids. When I was a kid my parents called a television set “the idiot box”. Forty years later we have generations of people who get all their information from the idiot box. The rest of the world looks at us with derision (rightly so, in my opinion). Our government betrays us daily, our “healthcare” system is a joke, our justice system is a sick joke, and our tax dollars go to support more wars against brown people. Well, our tax dollars are also used for bailing out failed rich guys and failing colonies so I guess you might call the fucking we are getting “multi-faceted”.

Posted by: Jim T. | May 22 2009 3:04 utc | 4

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