Tehran, YJC. Analyst says that Jalili is a follower of an extremist foreign policy much like Taliban’s.
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Two analysts, one advocating candidate Hassan Rohani and the
other Said Jalili debated their viewpoints in a talk show on the national TV. In
these debates Ali Baqeri represented Said Jalili and Mahmoud Vaezi represented
Hassan Rohani.
Baqeri first pointed to Hassan Rohani’s statements that
instead of negotiating things with the EU, Iran would better hammer things out
with the US as sheriff and said "Once we admit that there is a sheriff, we
expect them to give us our share, so we would no longer try to gain our right. Cooperations
with Western and European countries were conducted within this framework at
that time, where different negotiations were held in Tehran, Brussels, and
Paris. The end result of such cooperative trend was the fact that we accepted
and gave them all they demanded.”
Baqeri asserted that instead of following the international
community, the country needs to work towards the gratification of its rights
individually.
In return, Vaezi said that the country must not pursue
its share, but its right in the international system. He added "Here it is
clear that Mr. Jalili’s outlook is an extension of Ahmadinejad’s. This sort of
foreign policy is a contestant category that is at loggerheads with everyone. Such
foreign policy will surely fail to uphold our national interests and security. We
adopted an extremist approach and quarreled with different countries, and that
reminds us of Taliban’s policy. When it rose to power, Taliban adopted the same
approach. It is even likely that they are somehow guided by Taliban. This is a
defective policy.”
He also criticized the Ahmadinejad administration’s foreign
policy regarding its outlook toward Israel and said "Mentioning the Holocaust
makes Israel appear mistreated. That was the foreign policy which bought
us economic sanctions, 5 UN resolutions, and two statements.”
Rohani’s advocate said that the form of foreign policy
introduced by Ahmadinejad and likely to be followed by Jalili will inflict the most
severe economic damages upon the country. He said "As long as this policy
prevails, neither the nuclear issue nor the country’s economic problems will be
solved.”
Vaezi asserted "What is important to us in nuclear
negotiations is the outcome. Diplomacy will not progress with mottos, it is rather
result-bound. Mr. Jalili has supported Ahmadinejad’s foreign policy during his
8 years of presidency. Mr. Jalili’s duty in the Security Committee is to coordinate
political, economic, and social issues. A large part of the existing problems
must be answered by the Security Committee.”