Iran

[Nightwatch]

Darauf gibts wohl unterschiedliche Reaktionen. Während unsere Revans und Nightwatchs scheinbar erst noch überlegen müssen, was sie dazu sagen, bringen europäische Analysten ihre Überlegungen ein:

Da braucht man nichts zu sagen, da reicht es über den neuen Chamberlain den Kopf zu schütteln.


Die schallende Ohrfeige folgte sowieso prompt auch wenn es die Europäischen Friedensengel nicht wahrhaben wollen.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday rejected an offer by U.S. President Barack Obama to open a new era in relations until Tehran could see real changes in U.S. policies.

"The new U.S. president sends us a Persian New Year greeting message, but in the same accuses us again to support terrorism and to be after nuclear weapons," the supreme leader said in a televised speech in the city of Mashad in northeastern Iran.

"He offers us his hand with a velvet glove under which, however, might be a cast-iron hand," Khamenei added.

"We will not accept any offer for negotiations which goes together with force...we will see and if you - President Obama - really change, then we will change as well. But the aims and not just the tactics should be changed," Khameinei added.

The cleric, in line with Iran's constitution, has the final say on all state affairs.

Obama on Friday issued an unprecedented videotaped appeal to Iran offering a "new beginning" of diplomatic engagement to turn the page on decades of U.S. policy toward America's longtime foe.

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