Confirming reports that President Obama sent a letter to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei relating to the nuclear talks, senior Iranian officials accused the U.S. of hypocrisy, saying the president adopted a warm and friendly tone in the secret correspondence, but a harsh one when speaking publicly.
Obama “uses bullying words against Iran when he speaks to the media, but picks up a very friendly and kindly tone when he writes a letter” to Khamenei, parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani told state-run television.
The semi-official Fars news agency said Larijani blasted the U.S.’s “hypocritical attitude in and outside the nuclear talks,” referring to multilateral negotiations that enter their final days next week ahead of a Nov. 24 deadline for a comprehensive agreement.
Confirmation that Obama recently wrote to Khamenei also came from Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SCNC), who according to state television Wednesday night said that the regime has responded in the past to such letters – although he did not say specifically whether it had done so in this case.
Shamkhani, who was speaking during a meeting of SNSC directors and experts, echoed the accusations of two-facedness, Fars and other Iranian outlets reported.
“He lambasted the U.S. ruling system for adopting contradictory attitudes when writing secret friendly letters to Iran and when taking a public position, and explained that the White House apparently speaks in these two paradoxical tones for domestic consumption and to affect parties inside the U.S.”
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Obama, in a mid-October letter to the ayatollah described a “shared interest” in fighting Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists, and indicated that any cooperation against ISIS depended on Iran reaching a nuclear agreement with the P5+1 group of world powers.
Obama subsequently declined to comment “on any communications that I have with various leaders,” and the administration reiterated its policy that it will not link the nuclear and ISIS issues in its engagement with Tehran. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki on Wednesday again declined to comment on the purported correspondence, or on any Iranian response to such letters.
Shamkhani said the latest Obama letter dealt mostly with the nuclear issue.
“The U.S. president has been writing letters for several years, which have in some cases received some responses,” he said.
“The U.S. president has been reminded of the Islamic Republic’s clear, transparent and firm positions on the nuclear issue and told that Iran will not accept having a [uranium] enrichment program that is nominal or decorative.”
Shamkani said that if the West approaches the issue rationally a nuclear agreement can be reached. But he warned that U.S. attempts to keep “the Zionist regime” happy would place “serious barriers” in the road to a deal.
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Nuclear Armed Iran is just a carrot for Mr. Obama to play with. This man who has no common decency for a war against Terrifying hate is a criminal in the virtue of sending your enemy a friendly letter to see if he can win their moods in their higher offices.
This man has not even remembered that Neville Chamberlain was a very important lesson to study in terms of what happens when you appease an enemy.
A nuclear Iran is a heretics stronghold and hopefully but scarilly a hand of hate that can destroy the eye of time.
This is not a good time to think that Mr. Obama is here to serve the fitness of Any Future.
His Nobel Prize is his cupholder and he sets it in the bathroom.
Disgusting.
this is typical obama
Speak loudly and carry a small stick.