My latest at PJ Media:
Iran’s Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei, recently posted on his official website a compilation video of statements he has made between 2012 and late July 2021, saying that he believes that the United States cannot be trusted and that negotiations are therefore useless. Two days after this video was posted, State Department spokesman Ned Price said that it would be “hard to imagine” that would make Biden’s handlers think that it was useless to engage in negotiations with the Islamic Republic. Could Khamenei’s distrust and intransigence prevent the United States from entering into another disastrous nuclear deal?
Khamenei’s video features him saying in 2016: “Why do I insist so much that there must be no contact with the U.S.? This is true even for negotiations, with the exception of specific subjects that stem from our interests.” This segued into a statement from 2013: “I said at the beginning of the [Persian] year, in my speech in the sacred [city of] Mashhad, that there is no problem to conduct negotiations on specific subjects, but I said that I did not trust the Americans and that I was not optimistic about negotiations with them. However, if they want to conduct negotiations, they can go and do that.”
He undercut this tepid permission in another statement from 2016: “Some people say: There is no problem with negotiations. This is the problem with negotiations: They derail you from the right path, deny you of your advantage, take from you what you are supposed to give away, without giving to you what it is supposed to give.”
In another he added: “By no means will reconciliation with American resolve the country’s problems. Ten or fifteen reasons for this can be listed. The last reason is JCPOA,” that is, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the notorious Obama nuclear deal. “How many times have I said,” Khamenei continued, “throughout the negotiations, that the [Americans] are violators of promises, liars, who do not abide by what they say? Today, I am not [the only one] saying that they are violators of promises. The respected senior officials in our country and the negotiators themselves, who have worked so hard, are saying this.”
In yet another statement included in the video, Khamenei expanded on his claim that the Americans couldn’t be trusted. “We said: Do not rely on the other side. Do not be deceived by their smiles. Do not trust any real promise by them – I’m not talking about real promise, not real action – because once they get what they want, they will make a mockery out of you. This is how disgraceful they are.” And: “Ostensibly, they make promises and they use sweet-talk with you, but what they really do is conspire, sabotage, and prevent progress. This is America. This is our experience. Our experience tells us that this is poison that is lethal to us.”
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Charlie in NY says
Well, I suppose it’s to the West’s advantage then that the Ayatollah Khameini issued his phantom fatwa declaring possession of nuclear weapons by Iran to be haram. So nothing at all for us to worry about, right? … unless Iran’s leaders are lying. And what are the odds of that?
Of course, if President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry actually believed that fatwa was real, what was the point of bothering to negotiate the JCPIA in the first place. So maybe the ol’ Ayatollah had a point, just not the one he thought he was making.
Kagman says
Maybe he can send over hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars like he did with his treasonous pal, Obumbler
gravenimage says
Big Disappointment for Biden: Khamenei Says Americans Are ‘Liars,’ Doesn’t Want Negotiations
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Khamenei wants an even better deal, more money, and more grovelling, before he lets Biden appease him. Good lord…
Daniel Triplett says
And somewhere in there, we can be certain that Hunter will be selling $50 Million worth of finger-paints to the Ayatollah, or in some other way The Big Guy and the Biden Crime Family otherwise get their due cut out of JCPOA 2.
Rob Porter says
Simply utterly pitiful is America’s ‘leader’ and his even more pitiful handlers. Almost nothing, it seems, about Iran’s insults is too much for Biden and his c cowardly, stupid, buffoons. Grovelling cowards, it’s a characteristic of contemporary Western leaders. Said Ned Price, “it would be “hard to imagine” that would make Biden’s handlers think that it was useless to engage in negotiations with the Islamic Republic”. Why would any sane person wish to do so?
Frank Anderson says
What is to negotiate between war and peace, life and death, freedom and slavery? NOTHING! (homage to the Swiffer mop commercial with the absolutely cute young girl asking the question, “What is worse than mopping?”-I miss that commercial.)
Short explanation: While in law school I recorded mock negotiations for a class, attracting my interest in the subject. I found 6 affordable paperback books in the school store, bought and read them while I ran movie projectors to earn the money I was otherwise short. The book I consider the best among equals is Getting to Yes, by the Harvard Negotiating Project. I still have a copy, 40 years later. All of the 6 agree on these points.
Negotiation demands trustworthy parties. Islam teaches and practices for 1400 years that any commitment is temporary and only binding when it is beneficial. The subject of the negotiation must be amenable to compromise. Where is there any compromise between life and death?
The conclusion I suggest is the people calling for negotiation are liars trying to snow ignorant people into believing falsehoods while they milk everyone for money and power. My classic example of such a delusional liar will always be Neville Chamberlain; but he has many followers and imitators to this day.
gravenimage says
Yes–you can’t negotiate with the Mullahs. The US should return to shunning Iran.
Daniel Triplett says
You are correct Frank.
We cannot compromise with people compelled by their deity and prophet to pursue our enslavement and extermination. Their commitment to their deity will always supersede any commitment to us.
We must first disabuse and divorce them from their relationship with that deity and prophet.
Frank Anderson says
D.T., I suggest that we must first disabuse ourselves that we can change the unchangeable or disabuse them of any of their ideas. Such reform or apostasy by their “final, perfect, complete and unchangeable” rules is punishable by death at the hands of any vigilante who decides on his own they have strayed.
I suggest this is the primary error leading to all others of Neville Chamberlain-He imagined himself able to sell coal to Newcastle, Ice to Eskimos and Peace and respect to Hitler. “There are none so blind as those who REFUSE to see.”
gravenimage says
+1
Phil Copson says
“Neville Chamberlain….He imagined himself able to sell coal to Newcastle, Ice to Eskimos and Peace and respect to Hitler. “There are none so blind as those who REFUSE to see.”
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He imagined what would happen if Britain went to war over Czechoslovakia – and the answer is that Germany wins, and Europe would be under Nazi rule to this day, The invasion of Russia and the Middle East would have succeeded, and the USA would not have become a global super-power.
He also imagined that Britain might succeed if he first re-armed before declaring war, and did exactly that.
You can say what you like about Chamberlain, but you have to recognise that he had the courage to acknowledge that Nazism had to be defeated, and declared war.
Current Western leadership – with a few shining exceptions such as Viktor Orban and the departed (but not defeated) Donald Trump – are utterly determined to bring about the downfall of Western civilisation.
As long as their personal wealth and safety are assured, they truly don’t give a damn about what happens to anyone else.
I’d take Neville Chamberlain over Merkel, Macron, Biden etc any day of the the week.
Frank Anderson says
Phil, my opinion is far from being gold, and is always subject to your right to think differently. That is a lot of how I study my own ideas and improve. One of the three great teachings that attracted me to learn more about Judaism the first time I visited a congregation for Torah Study, was to ask every question, all questions, even to the very Existence of God, repeatedly; because the answers received in this life get better each time, but never perfect.
I have read too much about Germany’s marginal condition compared to Poland, Czechoslovakia, France, which had the largest armed force in the world, combined with the UK, which was by itself unprepared to find agreeing with your opinion easy. I do agree that compared to Chamberlain, the current mob of traitors and collaborators make him look like a piker in the betrayal of the countries they are leading to devastation. The major difference between then and now is the experience well at hand. “Those who cannot remember the lessons of the past are condemned to repeat them.” Jorge Santayana, The Life of Reason (1905).
In addition to Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, I have found Richard Evans Trilogy to be most informative. I have completed the second book, Third Reich in Power, which covers this period and shows the poker playing Hitler engaged in to buffalo his “opponents” into indecision and inaction. The third book Third Reich at War covers the mindless violence not only of the Holocaust, but also the occupation in more detail than Rise. Both books are worth my time.
It is much like the choice between shooting and hanging-you still wind up dead. I want both and ALL of us good people to live in freedom. That way we can discuss and share our opinions without losing the commitment to success we need to win.
Daniel Triplett says
Absolutely Frank, I agree with you. I’ve been saying as much for 25 years.
I’m not suggesting a campaign to disabuse Muslims from Islam can be done through “logic and reason.” It cannot. The Ummah has proven across the last 1400 years they don’t yield to such an approach. They only yield to strength, kinetic force, and firm resolve. Anything less, they just view as weakness, which just confirms and validates their belief that we are inferior and Islam is the righteous path for all mankind. Our weakness throws fuel on the jihad fire.
In fact, our Kaffir predecessors across the last 1400 years have proven peaceful negotiation is impossible against the Ummah and Islamic manifest destiny. Obviously, we aren’t the first peoples to ponder solutions to this existential problem. Our grandfathers and their grandfathers across 1400 years weren’t idiots. Time and again, they have repeatedly brainstormed and worked through all the different “logical and reasonable” solutions available to solve this problem. All the non-violent methods we think we’re inventing for the first time, such as negotiations, isolation/containment, and co-existing, have all been tried many times before, and it never worked. Nothing other than kinetic force has proven effective.
James Lincoln says
Frank Anderson,
“Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In” sounds like a great read, and is available on Barnes & Noble.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/getting-to-yes-roger-fisher/1100156587
Thanks for the tip!
Frank Anderson says
James, all 6 were worth my money and time. I like to learn from a spectrum when possible to reduce the natural error when allowing only one source. Some are easier to read, and others are more complicated. Yes is the first having read the six to try, just as Spencer’s Politically Incorrect Guide is the most direct, MARK Gabriel’s Unfinished Battle the most authoritative, and Warner’s Abridged Koran the most direct IN MY OPINION as places to start on the subject of islam.
PMK says
Was Chamberlain really a ‘delusional liar’, or was he simply wrong in believing he could negotiate with Hitler? Chamberlain might have been wrong but how does that mean he’s a liar? Many peaceniks in the US throughout our history were sincere in their beliefs.
Frank Anderson says
PMK the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals actually got one ruling right: “Deliberate ignorance constitutes knowledge of the truth.” Wyle v. R. J. Reynolds, 709 F.2d 585 (9th Cir. 1983). Chamberlain had from Hitler’s first public speech in August, 1920, to Munich in 1938 to understand Hitler’s intentions. Chamberlain chose to ignore every piece of information available to him, including the widely spread thoughts of Winston Churchill and others, that Hitler wanted to rule the world, including the UK.
You are entitled to your opinion and to rationalize and ignore deliberate ignorance.
nicholas tesdorf says
Well, at least Khamenei was right about Biden being a Liar.
Infidel says
I think he’s unwilling to give Hunter Biden an executive job or buy any of his paintings, unless and until the Bidens embrace the Twelver sect of islam. Maybe Hunter should do it and open up an office in Teheran
Walter Sieruk says
When Ayatollah Khamenei said Americans are “liars” he was in part saying the truth . Still not all Americans are liars but there two Americans that are outright blatant liars. The names of those two deliberate liars are Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. There’s lying despicable villains the most unethical sort.
OLD GUY says
We keep spending millions on these backward muslim countries and the only ones gaining anything are the contractors and military industries selling us equipment. It’s insane to think you are going to change a country and it’s people that hates you.
Daniel Triplett says
Like when James Biden, younger brother of Joementia, despite having no experience, was awarded a lucrative contract to build 100,000 new homes in Iraq, while “The Big Guy” was Vice-president. All in the family.
Walter Sieruk says
Well in all fairness to Khamenei ,there is, at least, one American who is an outright liar, his name is Joe Biden.