Khamenei Opposes Iran's Hardliners on Nuclear Negotiations

The Huffington Post ^ | December 3, 2014 | by Akbar Ganji

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The popular perception in the West is that Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, leads Tehran's hardliners against the administration of President Hassan Rouhani, particularly when it comes to the negotiations between Iran and the P5+ 1 group over Iran's nuclear program.

Iran's hardliners oppose the West ideologically, reject liberal democracy, and advocate Islamic fundamentalism. Opposing the West, and in particular the United States, is part of their identity. At the same time, the U.S. crippling economic sanctions against Iran has created many fundamentalist billionaires in Iran and, thus, lifting the sanctions will hurt them. A nuclear agreement with the West will also marginalize the fundamentalists in the political arena.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Other "hardliners" to the media.

[AU72]

The usual suspects are falling for Iran’s version of the good cop, bad cop.

[Hugin]

Almost 40 years of the Good Mullah/Bad Mullah puppet show and the media and establishment politicians are still falling for it.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

AU72, you’ve got it. Just an internal pissing contest on how best to fake out the free world re Iran’s real nuclear weapons goals, and the Huffington Post fell for it as usual.

That is why someone created the word “DUPES” to describe fools and stupids.

[Antoninus II]

Wow! Incredibly naïve or just plain stupid??

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Don’t buy any of this. The Persians (Sasanian Empire) invented a version of the game chess around the year 600, so are no slouches when it comes to tactics.

One of their favorites tends to catch westerners off guard.

Different individuals come out with totally different positions on an issue, all seemingly sounding authoritative, while rejecting each others positions. This is a means to see what their enemies position will be.

Once the enemy has stated his position, they select the most effective counter to it, and that is embraced as their official position. Sort of.

Importantly, many westerners have the bad habit of a “bias to blather”, holding endless meetings and trying to bore their enemies into compliance. This absolutely does not work against Iranians, who are more than willing for their enemy to waste their own time while Iranians discreetly act.

You can see the folly of this by how the west approached the Iranian nuclear program, and how the Iranians got everything they wanted and the west got nothing.

[HippyLoggerBiker]

While the Persians (and Saracens) have claimed many “inventions”, most were either stolen or adopted from other cultures.

“The history of chess spans over 1500 years. The earliest predecessor of the game probably originated in India, before the 6th century AD. From India, the game spread to Persia. When the Arabs conquered Persia, chess was taken up by the Muslim world and subsequently spread to Southern Europe. In Europe, chess evolved into roughly its current form in the 15th century.”

Source: Wikipedia (not the only source on this subject).

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HLB