Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has gone on a charm offensive lately with
multiple interviews with American media promising collaboration, but a recent
video shows he takes pride in deceiving the West.
“Gone is the age of blood feuds,” Rouhani stated in an op-ed in the
Washington Post. “World leaders are expected to lead in turning threats into
opportunities,” he wrote in the Post Friday.
In interviews with ABC and NBC, Rouhani said that Iran will never develop
nuclear weapons and that he has the authority to make a deal with the West. “In
its nuclear program, this government enters with full power and has complete
authority,” Rouhani said. “Under no circumstances would we seek any weapons of
mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, nor will we ever.”
Rouhani, who is one of the most trusted figures of the Islamic regime’s
supreme leader, has served the Islamic Republic at the highest levels since the
1979 revolution. He has been the deputy speaker of Parliament, the head of the
Executive Committee of the High Council for War Support during the Iran-Iraq
War, the deputy to the second-in-command of Iran’s joint chiefs of staff, a
member of the Expediency Council, a member of the Assembly of Experts (the body
that chooses the supreme leader), a former nuclear negotiator, and, most
importantly, the representative of the supreme leader to the Supreme National
Security Council since 1989.
Despite the recent charm offensive in the American media, a recently revealed
video of an interview prior to the June Iranian election shows him bragging how
he, in his role as Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, deceived the West during
negotiations on Iran’s illicit nuclear program even as Iran expanded its nuclear
power. At the same time, Rouhani managed to relieve pressure by the West,
especially in convincing the Europeans to avert possible military aggression by
the Bush administration.
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Monday, September 23, 2013
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