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Iran Blames US for Delays on Nuclear Deal
As nuclear negotiations in Vienna grind on through deadline after deadline, Iranian officials have begun a public campaign to blame the United States in the event that the talks fail.
Iran’s public diplomacy has long been geared toward selling a possible deal to hard-liners at home. But as an interim agreement between Iran and the West was extended on Friday to give negotiators more time, the government seemed to recognize the need to prove to ordinary Iranians that it had done all it could to obtain a final agreement and the lifting of economic sanctions.
“Such people may ask those in charge of the negotiations, ‘Why have you not compromised more?’ ” said Farshad Ghorbanpour, an analyst who is close to the government of President Hassan Rouhani. “Many of them seem to want a deal and are much less interested in what Iran needs to compromise.”
Echoing the remarks of a senior Iranian official who briefed American reporters on Thursday, Mr. Zarif said that Iran would “never leave the negotiating table” and that the other side was to blame for the delays.
“Unfortunately, we are witnessing many changes of stances, excessive demands and also different stances of several P5-plus-1 member states,” he said of his negotiating counterparts: the United States, Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia.
The remarks illustrate the potential for nastiness if a deal is not reached in the coming days. Analysts said the Iranian leadership would do everything possible to convince the public that the United States would be responsible for any breakdown in the talks.
This position is no improvisation. As far back as 2013, after announcing the direct talks with the United States, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, emphasized that he was pessimistic about an agreement because America could not be trusted.
“Of course, America will be blamed if we can’t reach an agreement,” said Aziz Shahmohammadi, a former adviser to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, adding that Ayatollah Khamenei had issued the same caveat on several occasions. “Failure in the talks will prove that belief in front of the entire nation.”
In Tehran, Friday was Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, the annual state-backed demonstrations against Israel. Thousands of people turned out to shout, “Death to America” and “Death to Israel,” while fire trucks along the route hosed them down with water to ward off the intense summer heat.
Mr. Rouhani, joining a crowd that carried placards saying, “Death to Zionism,” told reporters that the negotiations were in a delicate state but that “the future is bright.”
In a speech, the speaker of Parliament, Ali Larijani, a former nuclear negotiator, warned the United States, “If the talks reach a dead end, it will be you that will be blamed.”
The negotiations took a downward turn on Monday, American officials said, when the Iranian negotiating team started demanding that all United Nations sanctions against Iran, including the ban on the import or export of conventional arms, be lifted as part of the deal.
Iranian politicians said a Wednesday phone call from President Obama to Secretary of State John Kerry was the main reason for the talks going sour.
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“While the negotiations were moving towards understanding and agreement, America’s president disrupted the game under the pressure of the Zionist lobby,” Mansour Haghighatpour, a conservative lawmaker, told the Iranian Fars news agency. “Some European countries are also responsible for not reaching an agreement. In case an agreement is not reached, these countries will be the main reasons for this.”
Iranian state television broadcast an interview on Thursday with Ali Akbar Velayati, a foreign policy adviser to Ayatollah Khamenei, saying that Iran would never stop the talks. “It is up to them,” he said of the Americans. “If they want to go, they can go.”
The change in tone came as a shock to many ordinary Iranians, who had convinced themselves in recent months, based in large part on upbeat messages from Iran’s negotiators, that the nuclear talks were a done deal. Many had been anticipating a bright future after the lifting of the ruinous economic sanctions, which were imposed because of Iran’s nuclear program.
In elevators, in shared taxis and at family gatherings, Tehran residents would repeat to one another what they had heard on the news: that the negotiations were nearly done, that only a few issues remained.
On Thursday evening, after yet another deadline passed without the announcement of a deal, it dawned on Elnaz Karimi, a 37-year-old sales manager, that the talks could fail.
Sitting at home, surrounded by moving boxes with the television on in the background, she heard Mr. Kerry announce another extension of the negotiations. The sanctions have pushed the medical equipment company where she works to the brink of bankruptcy, she said, and she and her husband had just bought a new flat.
“What if the deal fails? Will there be more sanctions? What if I lose my job?” Mrs. Karimi said. “I just never thought no deal is also an option.”
14 Comments on "Iran Blames US for Delays on Nuclear Deal"
joe on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 1:35 am
Hey might as well alienate the shia Muslims as well, at least then US government can claim it’s against ALL Muslims not just sunnis. For those who say Iran will give a nuke to him hizbolla. Let’s just say that Israel has probobly 200 nukes. Make a list of 200 middle eastern cities starting with the biggest first, then think of how many the US has and then add in the likes of UK etc. Yes there is no legitimate or sensible reason to develop nukes except that it’s human nature and eventually we will probobly use them anyway, but right now sanctions will not bring down the Iranian government, but stupid US support of Israel is always going to give Americas enemies all the sticks they need to hit with. With the US there won’t be an Israel, just as islamists will rule Egypt under a free system of government. There is also the angle that Iran cannot make a deal with ‘the great satan’.
Boat on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 7:44 am
joe
From a US perspective Iran (the radical Shia) is a global sponsor of terror. So no, they won’t get nukes. Period.
Sanctions are not meant to bring down the Iranian government. They are meant to damage the Iranian economy to the point Iran will decide to give up nuclear aspirations and hopefully join the world community and live in peace.
BTW, if Iran is wants to export terror for example arm hezbollah, no deal should be made.
Rodster on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 8:55 am
From an Iranian perspective the US is a global sponsor of terror.”
There fixed it for ya ! 😉
BobInget on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 9:07 am
“Provisional Iran Nuclear Deal Expected Sunday: Diplomats”
Associated Press
Alternatives to a ‘provisional’ deal are
unthinkable. (see last paragraph of linked AP article)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/provisional-iran-nuclear-deal-expected-sunday-diplomats_55a25c5ce4b0a47ac15cb51c?4iaoflxr
Boat on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 9:11 am
There ya go Rodster. If a conflict of wills turns to war ya think the 6 billion per year Iran spends on it’s military will hang in there when the US will spend over 620 bill per year? Even Greece who is bankrupt spends more on it’s military. Remember, it is the winner of wars that gets to write history.
reelist on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 9:34 am
Another nice piece of propaganda from the Zionist-controlled US media.
Can someone please remind me again why Iran cannot possess WMD’s but Israel can and refuses to be party to the NTP?
Boat on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 10:16 am
Sure reelist, pretty simple. Nine countries currently have nukes. Most of the free world/capitalists/want to trade folks have agreed to forget nukes as long as their protected by the US/NATO. If the US/NATO allows a terrorist nation like Iran to have nukes then there will be 50 other nations that will want them also because they will have lost faith with the US/NATO.
Israel specifically like the other 8 are like grand fathered in. Even Russia and China have drawn the line on any new country with nukes. Like I said, the fear is 50 nations with nukes.
If you argue that all nations who want nukes should have them, in a sense of fairness your right. The world ain’t always fair.
Plantagenet on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 11:40 am
The Iranians had another grand round of chanting “Death to America” and making new threats in Tehran. And then they wonder why the US doesn’t want them to have nukes.
antaris on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 1:41 pm
Remember when they lie to us, they see it as just being clever. Let Isreal take care of the problem.
peakyeast on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 2:02 pm
@Boat: Please document how many countries that has been attacked by Iran vs How many that has been attacked by the USA for the past 100 years…
Its pretty obvious, if you can do this, who is a war and powermongering nation led by mongrels.
I will help you further – since you are obviously, challenged when it comes to actual knowledge: Its not Iran who has attacked ANYONE.
If you are SO afraid that Iran supports financially terrorists or what you can concoct in your sick mind – then please count the terrorists the USA has supported…
I am sorry to say, but you, sir – is a biased idiot with no sense of proportion or any idea – how the USAs old and recent history looks to anyone with a mind and no bias.
apneaman on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 2:20 pm
Planty who have the Iranians (modern) invaded? Assassinated? Embargoed? Intervened? You are just another typical spoiled paranoid arrogant American fuck who hates them because they kicked you out of their country in 1979 (their revolution of independence)and thinks because you used the bomb twice everyone else will. Hypocrisy know no bounds eh?. How fucked up is it that you people go around claiming everyone is going to do everything you have already done. Same as the Romans and all other empires, always with the excuses and pretexts. Except the Romans lasted 20 times longer. America is like the premature ejaculation of empires – all hot and bothered, barley stuck it in and you’re already spent…just a big mess left. 1945 to what 2020, 2025? Won’t even last a hundred years….fucking joke!
Boat on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 3:47 pm
One mans freedom fighter is another mans terrorist. The winner get’s to write history. Some phrase that the law of the jungle.
Apeman….Empire? We have no interest in empire. Make a buck off a trade, yes. Your biggest rants make no sense to an American. At least this one.
I read today about some Texans that think the government is building tunnels underneath Walmarts. Obama will force a financial meltdown and jump out of the tunnels and arrest them as they wonder looking for food. So maybe you and some of crazies on this site are like some of the crazy Texans.
apneaman on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 3:51 pm
American imperialism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_imperialism
BobInget on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 6:18 pm
Warning; Even if a Nuclear agreement with Iran is reached, US Congress won’t sign on.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/mcconnell-even-if-nuke-deal-passes-obama-still-has-bigger-fish-fry
Saudi Arabia and Israel are itchin for a fight with Iran. Bombing Iran throes a monkey wrench into our battle with IS in Syria and Iraq.
Iran will need to concentrate on defending the homeland, leaving Iraqi troops to fight off IS in the south. Should IS break through to Iraq’s oil fields, it’s game over.
It’s also quite possible al Qaeda profits in the
following maelstrom by laying low and picking up pieces later.
Iran could take terrible losses in a hot war with Israel, US and Saudi Arabia. Still, I believe Iran can survive ‘preemptive’ nuclear attack while Israel cannot.