Ahmadinejad calls Clinton ‘enemy of Iran’
Surprise, surprise. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Secretary Clinton "an enemy of Iran" on PBS’s Charlie Rose Show on May 3: It’s clear Clinton is an enemy of Iran. Mrs. Clinton is an enemy of Iran; it’s clear from the position she takes. She has always threatened Iran. The Iranian president was in the United ...
Surprise, surprise. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Secretary Clinton "an enemy of Iran" on PBS's Charlie Rose Show on May 3:
Surprise, surprise. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Secretary Clinton "an enemy of Iran" on PBS’s Charlie Rose Show on May 3:
It’s clear Clinton is an enemy of Iran. Mrs. Clinton is an enemy of Iran; it’s clear from the position she takes. She has always threatened Iran.
The Iranian president was in the United States for the U.N. conference on nonproliferation, and yesterday he scolded Clinton for shouting "insults" at Iran in front of the U.N. General Assembly.
Clinton, and rightly so, did have strong words about Iran. In a news conference after her U.N. speech, she said on Monday:
Iran is the only country represented here found to be currently in violation of its obligations under the NPT [Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty].… It appears that Iran’s president came here today with no intention of improving the NPT. He came to distract attention from his own government’s failure to live up to its international obligations, to evade accountability for defying the international community, and to undermine our shared commitment to strengthening the treaty.
But he will not succeed. Time and again, the Iranian government has tried to make its own failures to abide by its duties into an issue between Iran and the United States.… For all the bluster of its words, the Iranian government cannot defend its own actions, and that is why it is facing increasing isolation and pressure from the international community.
Among other things, Iran’s president today claimed that Iran had accepted the IAEA’s proposal to refuel the Tehran research reactor. Iran has a history of making confusing, contradictory, and inaccurate statements designed to convey the impression that it has adopted a flexible attitude toward the proposal. But we have seen no indication that Iran is willing to accept the IAEA’s October proposal or any variant of that proposal that would achieve the confidence-building goals that were intended. If Iran has truly changed its position, it should provide a clear indication of that to the IAEA.
Additionally, we repeat our call, on humanitarian grounds, for Iran to release the three young hikers who have been detained without charge or trial for more than nine months.
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