It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Soon after he took office, President Barack Obama began a process ultimately designed to reestablish full US diplomatic relations with Iran, including a reopening of embassies, an Israeli daily reported Sunday. The initiative, part of a wider shift in America’s diplomatic orientation, aimed at reaching understandings with Tehran over suspending its nuclear program, Maariv claimed, citing “two Western diplomats very close to the administration.”
The initiative led to at least two US-Iran meetings, the report said. Israel was made aware of the contacts, and opposed them.
But Iran rebuffed the “diplomatic hand” offered by the White House, Maariv reported. The Islamist regime “opposed any sign of normalization with the US, and refused to grant a ‘prize’ to the Americans,” according to an anonymous Israeli source quoted by the paper.
The information — the lead item on Maariv’s front page, headlined “Obama offered to renew relations with Iran” — comes on the heels of reports earlier this month that the US and Iran held back channel contacts toward establishing direct talks over Tehran’s nuclear program. Both the White House and Iran denied those reports.
According to Maariv, Deputy Secretary of State William Burns met with chief Iranian nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili for an hour in 2009, and one other meeting between officials from both sides took place as well.
Originally posted by Tw0Sides
reply to post by Vitruvian
He had, and still has the Jewish vote.
Most Jewish Americans dont care for Zionist Israel.
Currently he has 59% TO ROMNEYS 35% , not the 78% he had in 2008, but its a group that votes Dem.
www.commentarymagazine.com...
Originally posted by DaTroof
So essentially the article is saying that a Nobel Prize winner attempted peaceful negotiations with a foreign government instead of bombing and enslaving? The horror!
Take Note: The French expression au contraire is used not only to deny what someone just said, but to proclaim that the very opposite is true. No argument there - right ? Right !
Heres a little something for you to do on a Sunday.
Originally posted by R3KR
they want to kill everyone in isreal, and all the gays, and lots of other people.
your bubble must be filled with rainbows, unicorns and cotton candy.
Originally posted by xuenchen
Is there any confirmation that Obama actually was / is trying to establish diplomatic relations with Iran ?
Anything anywhere ?This article may be a ploy to sway pro Democrat American Jews.
Originally posted by DaTroof
reply to post by Vitruvian
You can cry about Obama winning a Nobel Prize all you want, it doesn't change the fact that most of the world acknowledges the award. Your dismissal of Obama's diplomatic sway is rather ignorant. It's obvious the chickenhawks want the US to lead this preemptive war that Israel is so eager to start. Sorry, I don't buy it. Neo-Conservatives and Zionists alike are spinning media in an effort to drum up public approval for aiding Israel. It's really shallow once you realize every jpost or haaretz or any other Israeli themed (aka supposedly super protected by the ADL) or Zionist themed news source is pure propaganda.
I have.
Originally posted by Vitruvian
Its COMMON knowledge throughout the entire world that the Nobel Peace Prize is a sham and a joke - a mere political tool to favor the Leftists aka Marxist Communists.........
Please do the research..
Originally posted by projectvxn
It is not only Jews this has an effect on.
I'm not Jewish and this is just another reason for me not to trust Obama.