As Iran, U.S. and EU diplomats extended Tehran’s nuclear program negations a second day, Israel, not a party to the talks, insisted that Iran is covertly developing a nuclear arsenal. In response, Iran continued to contest that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only, and refused to curb enrichment capacity.
Many nations and multinational entities have imposed sanctions against Iran, pertaining to it nuclear ambitions, since Iran's 1979 revolution. In addition the U.N. in recent years has also passed Iranian Security Council Resolutions 1696, 1737, 1747, 1803, 1835, 1929, 1984 and 2049.
Iran obviously welcomed today’s negations as a continuing means of lifting sanctions, as was the case a year ago when U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry coordinated negations that concurrently eased sanctions while recognizing Iran's right to continue enriching uranium,” Iran's non-negotiable pre-condition.
Reiterating Iran's official line, Ali Akbar Velayati, a top aide to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted by Iranian media as saying the Islamic Republic would not abandon its nuclear "rights" but was committed to the negotiations under Khamenei's leadership. (Warren Strobel, Iran, U.S., EU nuclear talks in Oman seen going to second day, Reuters, 11/9/2014).
Khamenei’s overriding strategic objective, eliminating all outside influences in the region, continued unabated on Saturday as:
“Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took to Twitter… where he unleashed a string of vitriolic tweets against Israel.
"This barbaric, wolflike & infanticidal regime of #Israel which spares no crime has no cure but to be annihilated. #HandsOffAlAqsa…."
He also tweeted that the "only means to confront a barbaric regime like Israel is arming West Bank." The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that US President Barack Obama sent Khamenei a letter suggesting cooperation in the fight against Islamic State (JPOST STAFF, Khamenei on Twitter: No cure for barbaric Israeli regime but to be annihilated, The Jerusalem Post, 11/09/14).
“No weapon that is formed against thee [Israel] shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD” (Isaiah 54:17).
After the May 1945 fall of Berlin, Nazi flags were gathered and doused with gasoline and set aflame. A lone camera man recorded the mesmerizing Swastika-emblazoned1 remembrances of the Third Reich frantically contorting and finally expiring in the flame.
1Hitler Youth propaganda pamphlet "The Life of the Führer": “Our beloved swastika flag…. The Führer himself designed it…. We see the social in the red, the movement’s national thinking in the white, and in the swastika we see the symbol of the victory of Aryan humanity… which was always anti-Semitic and will always be anti-Semitic” Source: Reichsjugendführung, Pimpf im Dienst (Potsdam: Ludwig Voggenreiter Verlag, 1938).
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