30-09-2013, 02:05 PM
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Just like clockwork Netanyahu is off to Washington to nip this in the bud.
Quote:Netanyahu heads to America to challenge Iranian charm blitz
By Agence France-Presse
Sunday, September 29, 2013 7:55 EDT
Topics: benjamin netanyahu ♦ iran ♦ Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
​Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu left for New York early Sunday in a bid to challenge perceptions that Iran under its new president poses less of a nuclear threat than before.
"I intend to tell the truth in the face of the sweet talk and charm offensive of Iran" Israeli public radio quoted him as saying as he boarded the plane at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport.
"Telling the truth at this time is essential for world peace and security and, of course, for Israel's security."
Earlier in the week he described Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's conciliatory speech to the United Nations General Assembly as "cynical" and "full of hypocrisy."
On Monday Netanyahu will meet US President Barack Obama at the White House then return to New York to address the General Assembly on Tuesday.
Netanyahu has long put what Israel and the west say is a covert Iranian programme to develop a nuclear weapon at the forefront of his security concerns.
Iran denies the charge and in his UN address Rouhani said that "nuclear weapons… have no place in Iran's security and defence doctrine."
The self-styled moderate, tasked with easing concerns over Iran's nuclear program, made history on Friday by speaking by phone to US President Barack Obama, in the first contact between the countries' leaders since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Israeli media said that Netanyahu had instructed his ministers and senior officials not to comment on the call.
Undoubtedly, Netanyahu spoke first with the leader of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, who also want to stop the prospect of a negotiated settlement.
Shades of the Kremlin and Pentagon right-wingers and the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 who both wanted "war war not jaw jaw".
Quote:Head of Revolutionary Guard condemns Rouhani Obama call
Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned President Hasan Rouhani that he should have refused to take last week's historic telephone call from US counterpart Barack Obama.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks in New York Photo: John Minchillo/AP
By AFP
1:42PM BST 30 Sep 2013
It was the first public criticism by a senior Iranian official of Friday's landmark first contact between leaders of the two countries since the rupture of diplomatic relations in the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic revolution.
"The president took a firm and appropriate position during his stay" in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, General Mohammad Ali Jafari said in an interview with the Tasnimnews.com website.
"But just as he refused to meet Obama, he should also have refused to speak with him on the telephone and should have waited for concrete action by the United States."
The public criticism came despite appeals earlier this month by both Rouhani and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for the Guards, who have long seen themselves as guardians of the values of the revolution, to steer clear of politics.
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Jafari said that Washington should respond to the good will shown by Rouhani in New York by "lifting all sanctions against the Iranian nation, releasing Iranian assets frozen in the United States, ending its hostility towards Iran and accepting Iran's nuclear programme."
The commander of the Guards air wing General Amir-Ali Hadjizadeh told the corps' own sepahnews.com website that "US hostility can't be forgotten with a phone call and a smile."
On September 17, Khamenei said it was "unnecessary" for the Guards to get involved in politics.
The previous day, Rouhani called on the Guards to "stand above political tendencies."
Rowhani's contact with Obama was broadly welcomed in the Iranian press as well as abroad, but a small group of hardline Islamists protested outside Tehran's Mehrabad airport on his return.
A shoe was thrown, as the protesters chanted: "Death to America," a slogan that was long a ritual refrain at official rallies.
Telegraph.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14