Posted on 01/03/2010 12:47:31 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Iran denies entry to Sen. Kerry By Bridget Johnson - 01/03/10 01:48 PM ET
Iranian legislators on Sunday decided to not allow a visit from Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.), according to Iranian media.
"Members of the Iranian parliament's Foreign Relations Committee (a subcommittee of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission) voiced opposition to the request after studying the issue," Hassan Ebrahimi, head of the committee, told the semi-official Fars News Agency.
Several Iranian news outlets reported last week that Kerry had submitted an official request to visit Tehran in an emissary role.
Kerry spokesman Frederick Jones told the Wall Street Journal before Christmas, though, that no trip had been scheduled. "Is he planning now on going to Iran? The answer is no," said Jones.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast said last week that "legislative officials are studying the case and they are in charge for providing a response."
On Saturday, Iranian legislators stepped up the rhetoric against the news that Kerry was considering traveling to Tehran with the blessing of the White House.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran has no plans to negotiate with any American official, unless the country (the U.S.) changes its policies," member of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Zohreh Elahian said, according to Fars News Agency.
"Iran-US relations are not under such conditions that could produce results through a number of non-targeted meetings and talks," rapporteur of the parliament's Nationals Security and Foreign Policy Commission Kazzem Jalali told Fars on Saturday in response to a question about Kerry wishing to visit Iran.
"Americans are more seeking to exploit the media and means of propaganda in a bid to gain an advantage," Jalali said. "...A number of the high-ranking officials in the present U.S. administration sent letters for talks with Iranian officials when they served as senators.
"The bills ratified in the US legislative bodies against Iran are examples of paradoxical behavior which we are witnessing from American statesmen towards Iran, and indicate that their policies on Iran are not honest," he added.
Our enemies are doing more to stop treason than we are.
Made my entire day! ROfLMTO! Watch, next it will be Hanoi Jane wanting to go over. I was really hoping they would allow him to come and hold him hostage. No such luck, but this is pretty close!
ROFL!
The Iranians actually approved Kerry’s visit... before they denied it.
They must’ve gotten wind that he claimed to have worked as an agent for Special Forces once.
Diplomatic FAIL
Not too worry.
Kerry’s an old hand at clandestine missions and slipping into closed countries via fast boat.
/s
Barack Obama serves as President of the United States but he never exhibited any love for this nation. Listen to him speak about how rotten this nation has always been.
Ultimately when he bows to other world leaders (and even non-leaders), it is to humble the United States before "our" betters.
Him and Madelyn Albright both wanted to see America's role in the world (and our standard of living) knocked down a few pegs. Of course, he also wants to squander American resources directing them to other nations as "economic and social justice". Marxist redistribution under the guise of equality. Making Americans' slaves to the State does not promote liberty or wellbeing.
That boat was so fast that Richard Nixon sent him back in time to serve in Cambodia in December 1968.
If you must, use him as an example of what you think about crackpot liberals
Hey Kerry! The ultimate insult is when your application for “Useful Idiot” is rejected, eh?
And, unlike JFn, I know Nixon didn't become president until Jan. 69.
So John Kerry goes in today for his second hip replacement. Shot from the hip too much?
How was he going to Iran if he was having hip replacement. Recovery alone is at least 4 weeks?
As much as I love seeing Lurch get b****-slapped, this isn’t about him. This is about nuke-seeking savages deciding that the big dog in the neighborhood has no teeth. Not good.
Lurch claimed to be an agent of Special Forces. The Iranians already claim “espionage” of foreign visitors at every turn.
And if the Democrats expected anything positive to come of Kerry’s trip, they were sorely mistaken. Especially after the Iranian nutjob was punked at Columbia.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5h_dNh3fX7IFS2Y1wd-KbEeH_wvOw
Maybe hip surgery needed to be done but was not scheduled until he needed to prove he never had plans to go to Iran?!?
Maybe it is not bad at all but he is using it now because he can’t stand the rejection?!?
Like Dodd who is using his prostate cancer for HC reform and pity to get re-elected.
I wonder if 0 has gotten the message yet. The Iranians have been so vague and circumspect as to what they actually think of him, his administration, and his diplomacy.
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