March 20,2009 - Dr. Raj Baldev, Cosmo Theorist from India – President Barack Obama has opened a new leaf of relationship with Iran suggesting better international affiliation of humanity that binds the whole world in terms of art, history, culture and peace in particular.
President Obama has sent an remarkable and unexpected message through videotap wherein he directly appealed to Iranian leaders to consider a shift in their policies so as to help Iran and United States to come closer to each other in the larger interest of the humanity.
Mr. Obama’s tone was friendly and clear and at the same time it was blunt at times, he did not hesitate warning Iranian leaders that the new relationship can only be built on peaceful approach rather than threats or by terror or arms, which meant that Iran shall have to adopt a peaceful policy for the maintenance of relationship with United States, who are interested to maintain better relationship.
It was a short speech or a televised message, released early morning on Friday in Iran, but it contains concrete and solid language to reinstate the relationship of both the countries. He urged Iranian leaders to sit and discuss the issues “in mutual respect” that has taken both of them far away from each other and that included Iran’s nuclear ambitions, their negative attitude towards Israel and their support for terrorism.
The New York Times writes: The president’s overture drew an enthusiastic response from the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, who said he hoped it would lead to a “new chapter in relations with Iran.”
But Iranian officials were more cautious, according to news reports, welcoming the president’s desire to settle disputes with uncharacteristic alacrity, but insisting, as they have in the past, that the United States must first address Iran’s grievances toward Washington.
Ali Akbar Javanfekr, a senior official in Tehran, said a new relationship could not be built on “Iran forgetting the previous hostile and aggressive attitude of the United States.”
“The American administration has to recognize its past mistakes and repair them as a way to put away the differences,” news reports quoted Mr. Javanfekr as saying.
Mr. Javanfekr, an aide to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, urged the United States to “fundamentally change its behavior,” Reuters reported.
Mr. Obama “has to go further than words and take action. If Obama shows willingness to take action, the Iranian government will not show its back to him,” he said, according to Agence France-Presse. He did not say what specific actions Tehran wanted.
The catalogue of grievances includes American support for a 1953 coup and the downing in 1988 of an Iranian civilian airliner by an American warship in the Persian Gulf. Iran also holds Washington responsible for supporting Baghdad in the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s and for backing armed Iranian dissidents. Mr. Javanfekr was also quoted as taking issue with the United States military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, calling it “the only source of stability in the region.” More
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