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Obama Willing to Talk with Iran - An endorsement for Obama
FARS News Agency ^
| Saturday, February 02, 2008
| FNA
Posted on 02/02/2008 8:28:34 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Obama Willing to Talk with Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said he would favor holding direct talks with Iran and Syria in a bid to stabilize the Middle East if elected president.
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In an interview with France's Paris Match on Thursday, Obama said, "I want to have direct talks with countries like Iran and Syria because I don't believe we can stabilize the region unless not just our friends but also our enemies are involved in these discussions."
He was also quoted as saying he would also hold a summit with leaders of Muslim states to address the growing gap between the West and the world of Islam.
The Illinois senator added that to repair the image of the United States in the world, he would "put an end to the war in Iraq."
"Occupying the country has put the odds against us with the world," Obama said.
Meanwhile, a visiting Iranian official said Thursday in Cairo that Iran and Egypt would work together to resolve the Middle East's top crises such as in Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories, and that both wanted to upgrade their diplomatic relations, severed nearly three decades ago.
Teheran cut diplomatic ties after Cairo signed a peace agreement with Israel in 1979 and provided asylum for the deposed Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
Ali Akbar Nateq Nouri, a top adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, spoke after a meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Thursday in Cairo.
"It has been decided that we and Egypt will work together for more coordination on regional issues such Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine," Nateq Nouri said. "Iran and Egypt are key regional nations and have too many things in common."
In May, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad offered to restore ties with Egypt, a strong US ally. At the time, Ahmadinejad said his country was ready to open an embassy in Cairo as soon as Egypt agreed to do the same in Tehran.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: fars; iran; isg; obama
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I would not be surprised to see Obama getting an endorsement from Ahmadinijad.
I would not be surprised to see Obama getting an endorsement from al Quaeda, either.
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posted on
02/02/2008 8:31:01 PM PST
by
Westbrook
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
You can’t negociate with people bent on your destruction.
4
posted on
02/02/2008 8:31:45 PM PST
by
G8 Diplomat
(Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The politics of surrender.
“What did we do that was wrong? What can we do to make you happy? How can we give your terrorist sympathizing governments more credibility?”
The terrorist on the street is going ot love this guy.
5
posted on
02/02/2008 8:31:51 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(McCain: RNC will adore him. Get ready for McCain day in photos & Prayer threads. Oh the humanities!)
To: G8 Diplomat
^Only one way to deal with them: get them before they get you
6
posted on
02/02/2008 8:32:02 PM PST
by
G8 Diplomat
(Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Questions came from presenters in MTV’s Times Square studio and from online and in-studio participants.
If I convene a meeting of Muslim leaders to try to bridge the divide between Islam and the West, I do so with the credibility of someone who lived in a Muslim country for four years when I was a child
Barack Obama Speaking in the forum, Mr Obama said that his multicultural heritage allows him to “see through the eyes of other people” abroad in ways another president could not.
“If I convene a meeting of Muslim leaders to try to bridge the divide between Islam and the West, I do so with the credibility of someone who lived in a Muslim country for four years when I was a child,” he said, referring to time spent in Indonesia.
“And although I’m a Christian I have a sense of that culture.”
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posted on
02/02/2008 8:33:30 PM PST
by
TornadoAlley3
(This site has been invaded by trolls!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Obama’s father was a Muslim. His stepfather was a Muslim. He was registered as a Muslim in his Indonesian school. He attended a mosque and studied the Qran.
According to Muslims, that makes him a Muslim, and the only way you can leave Islam is death.
Yet the Muslims all seem to like Obama, although he now says he is a Christian. No fatwahs have been issued condemning him for apostasy. I wonder why?
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posted on
02/02/2008 8:36:14 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The Dhims are great at talking.
Too bad they’re just never good at doing or accomplishing much (except destroying freedom and America, raising taxes, weakening our defenses, etc.)
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posted on
02/02/2008 8:39:00 PM PST
by
garyhope
(It's World War IV, right here, right now, courtesy of Islam.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Barack “Jimmy” Obama. This guy would be even worse than Jimmy Carter when it comes to national defense. Doesn’t the Democratic Party have any strong defense hawk types in their ranks? Where are the Scoop Jacksons, Les Aspins, and Sam Nunns of the 21st century for the Dems? Can anyone honestly trust today’s Democratic Party with defending this country?
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posted on
02/02/2008 8:39:07 PM PST
by
dowcaet
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
“Occupying the country has put the odds against us with the world,” Obama said.
All those countries against us had sweetheart deals with Saddam!
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posted on
02/02/2008 8:40:05 PM PST
by
Rennes Templar
("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
To: TornadoAlley3
Oh and by the way, Mrs. Obama said if they get to the White House they "both" would continue to keep their children at the center of their lives.
Sorry, sister, that dog ain't gonna hunt.
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posted on
02/02/2008 8:42:00 PM PST
by
gov_bean_ counter
( Who is America's George Galloway?)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Doing overtly what is being done covertly. Obama and the elites putting Baker-Hamilton (ISG) in force.
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posted on
02/02/2008 8:42:37 PM PST
by
endthematrix
(He was shouting 'Allah!' but I didn't hear that. It just sounded like a lot of crap to me.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Obama, when you negotiate with them what can you offer them?
To: Rennes Templar
This guy desperately needs to be asked whether he would go to the mat for Israel — and it needs to be asked just that way.
Straight up or down answer. No ifs, ands or buts. Whichever answer he gives would sink him.
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posted on
02/02/2008 8:46:44 PM PST
by
Migraine
(...diversity is great... until it happens to YOU...)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
If the Presidential race boils down to John McCain vs Barack Obama, it will wind up being a definitive referendum on the war on terror, IMO.
We'll see.
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posted on
02/02/2008 8:48:20 PM PST
by
Bratch
(“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” --- Edmund Burke)
To: Cicero
I passionately dislike the mutt. But he’s not a sleeper-cell POTUS candidate. He’s not going to even mention Sharia law. He’s a internationalist, America can’t-be-first Marxist. Fellow Illinoisans have been getting the socialist shaft and we’ll get it federally with Obama at the WH.
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posted on
02/02/2008 8:50:45 PM PST
by
endthematrix
(He was shouting 'Allah!' but I didn't hear that. It just sounded like a lot of crap to me.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Is it just because you have a Muslim name or are you a fool?
To: Mike Darancette
Freedom to continue with European Union business as usual and say nice things about them at "world community" gatherings.
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posted on
02/02/2008 8:53:43 PM PST
by
endthematrix
(He was shouting 'Allah!' but I didn't hear that. It just sounded like a lot of crap to me.)
To: DoughtyOne
The Obamination is Snivel Chamberlain..
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posted on
02/02/2008 8:54:54 PM PST
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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