Posted on 10/24/2018 3:07:16 AM PDT by piasa
TEHRAN: One of Iran’s top foreign policy officials has called for negotiations with “anti-Trump movements” in the US to dampen the impact of sanctions, local media reported Saturday.
“America is not Trump,” said Heshmatollah Falahat-Pisheh, a conservative lawmaker who heads parliament’s influential national security and foreign policy commission, according to reformist newspaper Arman.
“There is a new diplomatic atmosphere for deescalation with America and it is fitting that Iran follows negotiation diplomacy and lobbying anti-Trump movements in America,” he added.
He said this would help alleviate pressure caused by Washington’s “extensive sanction-focused force.”
The US pulled out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal in May and reimposed punishing sanctions on the country, hoping to pressure Tehran into what President Donald Trump calls a “better deal.”
The US is due to complete the reimposition of sanctions on November 5, targeting Iran’s oil sector and central bank.
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has dismissed Trump’s offers to talk as “a dangerous game.”
But Mehdi Motaharnia, a Tehran-based political analyst, described Falahat-Pisheh’s proposal as “very meaningful” since it signifies a potential shift in conservatives’ stance on talking with the US.
“This comes from a conservative whose party members called (Foreign Minister Mohammad) Javad Zarif a traitor for negotiating with the US,” Motaharnia told reformist daily Hamdeli.
“But now we do not see such reactions when the head of national security and foreign policy commission proposes talks,” he added.
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Snort. My bet is Iran has been doing this for a while now...
So, the mullahs *are* Democrats! I knew it!
Couldn’t this be interpreted as “interfereing with an election”?
so basicly Obama gave Iran loads of cash and now Iran will use it to help the Dems?
Give us time! It’s only been two years!
So will they collude with Democrats to influence our elections, and if so, Will FBI investigate?
Actually, Trump IS America.
What wasn’t America was clinton and obama.
Gotta admit, it would be creative laundering.
“My bet is Iran has been doing this for a while now...”
I agree. What has happened to America such that we now have an entire political party who are willing to get into bed with our enemies? This is a country that has openly stated ‘death to America’ and ‘death to Israel’, but John Kerry went there to undermine an American President. Why isn’t he in prison? How could anyone who loves this country even think about voting for Democrats at this point in history?
Me thinks, the towel on his head is coming un-rapped - Trump lives rent free in the minds of his detractors. MAGA
Meddling - Interfering - Lobbying. Same difference
I suspect that Hezbollah Operatives have been involved in the execution of the Illegal Alien Invasion..
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