Iran's president says he'll talk to Trump "right now"

CNN ^ | 12 Aug 2018 | Zachary Cohen,

[mandaladon]

Washington (CNN)Iranian President Hassan Rouhani issued a challenge to President Donald Trump on Monday, saying the Islamic Republic would welcome talks with the US "right now."

"I don't have preconditions. If the US government is willing, let's start right now," Rouhani said during an interview that aired on state television late Monday local time, just hours before the US renewed sanctions on Iran. "If there is sincerity, Iran has always welcomed dialogue and negotiations," Rouhani said. Trump's national security adviser John Bolton, when asked about the offer by CNN's Jake Tapper, dismissed it as possible "propaganda."

"Let's see what really comes of it or whether it's just more propaganda," Bolton said, adding that Trump has been "consistent" that he would be willing to negotiate with regimes such as North Korea and Iran. "If the Iranians are really willing to come and talk about all of their malign behavior in the region and around the world, I think they'd find the President willing to do it," Bolton said. But the Iranian President expressed concern that Trump is the unreliable one, pointing out that the US President has backed out of previous dialogue with Tehran as well as other international agreements.

[Berosus]

No code was used here. Not too long ago, the Iranians claimed they captured some lizards that were spying for the US. I think the lizards were supposed to be wearing miniature cameras. And a few years back (2006?) they said the same thing about some squirrels.

[Sedona13]

Obama was such an ahole.

[arrogantsob]

That isn’t as crazy as it sounds these days. It certainly would be feasible, of course having a lizard on the boardroom table might be a little suspicious.

[Innovative]

They are slowly coming to their senses.

[Chode]

[Leep]

clever squared..:)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3631736/posts

[libh8er]

Compare with Bozo Hussein who would send them tens/hundreds of billions of dollars for nothing.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is the number two guy in Iranian politics

Well, he's certainly "number two" as far as I'm concerned.

[Jumper]

Trump Admin and Israel are huddled together brainstorming this before 5am this morning;). I am quite sure The Donald will invoke some Art of The Deal, make a big deal of Iranian influence (read troops/proxies) in Lebanon and Syria/Iraq and by 6:30am the Saudi's were putting in their 2-barrels worth on Sanna and the rebels firing rockets at them. Now if we do this right, Trump puts his boot in Qatar's A$$ for aligning rather openly with Iran. Once all these are sorted out, Trump can demand one last point of contention - that Iran stop and renounce it's plans to attack US Diplomatic missions worldwide, and get the hell out of S.America as their commie pals in V-land collapse (This should lessen US war planning with Iran who has preplanned and ready to attack any Embassy, or consulate, plus they openly advocate attacking US Business interests). Once they renounce attacking US Diplomatic missions, get out of Syria, drawdown support in Mid-East for their proxies and return their Quads/regular army forces to the barracks in Iran we can talk turkey (and that ain't got nothing to do with Ankara).

You 'd like to talk, here's our agenda so now what do you ask to see President Trump about!