Iran's president criticises detente foreign policy

[allemand]

Tue Jan 3, 2006 3:44 PM GMT

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday told lawmakers the foreign policy of detente adopted by his two predecessors had achieved little and reduced Iran's standing in the Islamic world, a lawmaker said.

Since taking office in August Ahmadinejad has stiffened Iran's foreign policy stance, replacing dozens of pro-reform diplomats, pushing ahead with atomic work frowned on by the West and launching a series of searing verbal attacks against Israel.

In a closed-door meeting with parliament's Foreign Policy and National Security Committee, Ahmadinejad said that under former presidents Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami Iran had tried to appease Europe.

"On foreign policy, Ahmadinejad said that during the last sixteen years, we adopted a detente policy ... but in practice this policy had not achieved anything for Iran," Kazem Jalali, a member of the committee, told the official IRNA news agency.

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[ECH1969]

1. WTF???

"On foreign policy, Ahmadinejad said that during the last sixteen years, we adopted a detente policy ... but in practice this policy had not achieved anything for Iran," Kazem Jalali, a member of the committee, told the official IRNA news agency.
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I don't get it what the hell is he talking about?

[allemand]

2. I'm under the impression that he wants to provoke a war.

Unfortunately he isn't the only one.

:(

[The Stranger]

4. War for him would be suicide, but he knows PNAC has called it in.

Given the inevitability, it really doesn't matter what he says.

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