Iran

[Shahab3]

Ehrlich gesagt, ist es gar nicht relevant, ob dir etwas bzw. was dir gefällt. Es ist auch gar nicht sein Ziel oder seine Aufgabe bei dir zu punkten, oder everybodies darling zu sein, sondern allenfalls zu polarisieren. Das gelingt ihm ja ganz gut. Zumal man für eine Analyse rhetorischer Qualitäten schon einen konkreteren Bezug auf einen ausführlicheren Diskurs nehmen müsste. Dazu taugen weder einzelne Aussagen, noch Ausschnitte aus Zeitungen oder Interviews.

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Iran is an opportunity, Ahmadinejad tells Obama

NEW YORK (AP) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged President Barack Obama to see Iran as a potential friend instead of a threat on Wednesday.
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He sought to open a wider nuclear dialogue with the West, and said the onus should be on the United States and other major nuclear powers to give up their weapons and to expand opportunities for all countries to make peaceful use of nuclear power.
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Ahmadinejad remained soft-spoken and almost completely still in his chair as he politely fielded questions on a wide range of issues rankling Iran’s relationship with the West. He would occasionally nod or offer a small smile, particularly when he appeared pleased with a point he had made, but the Iranian President never gestured or raised his voice. A few questions prompted an animated flurry of conversation in Farsi among members of his delegation before he gave a response that was translated into English.
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“I hope that Mr. Obama will move in the direction of change,” Ahmadinejad said. At another point he said, “The sources of insecurity around the world need to be discussed.”

The U.S. has agreed for the first time to fully join European-led talks with Iran.
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As recently as last Friday, Ahmadinejad questioned whether the Holocaust was “a real event” and said it was used by Jews to trick the West into backing the creation of Israel.

Ahmadinejad said he is not interested in debating historical details. Instead, he said he wants to focus on what he calls the wrong done to Palestinians who lost their land when Israel was formed.

Ahmadinejad said the Holocaust is used as a pretext for the repression of Palestinians. He grouped the deaths of Jews during World War II with those of millions of others who died.

Ahmadinejad repeated his nation’s interest in cooperating to help stabilize Afghanistan and help Iraq, but blamed the United States for having created chaos in the war-torn country on Iran’s eastern border.

“The occupying forces or the groups that have sent in the military to these two states, if indeed their policy has led to further instability, what do they want us to do?” Ahmadinejad said. “What exactly can we do for a car that has decided to speed up and basically crash down the hill? I don’t see exactly what we can do under that scenario.”
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