Tehran, YJC. Professor says that there are radicl views by Iranians and Americans from each other which hinder growing relations.
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Political Science
Professor at the University of Tehran and an adviser close to Hashemi Dr. Sadeq Zibakalam said "Mr. Rouhani and
those behind him are after mutual relations between Iran and the US. One of
their most important promisses was to improve relations with the outer world. The
American-Israeli extremists prayed for Jalili to win.”
Speaking with US Viewer,
Center For US Strategic Studies, Zibakalam said "Mr. Rouhani's rise to power
will have the most positive effects on Iran-US relations. Contrary to this, the
opposite is the case with Said Jalili, that is, if he were to become President relations
would have become tenser.”
"I believe that Iran-US relations must go through positive changes
in the Rouhani administration, else it would be a pity,” he said.
Asked if he believes that with recent sanctions, the US shows to
take double standards, he said "There is no such thing as double positions. It is
a pity that those who would not like a change to occur in the Iran-US enmity
say that Rouhani is barely in power when the US is going to repeat the Axis of
Evil story, that being why it has put new sanctions. But what the Principalists
do not know about it, or they pretend not to know, is that the sanctions which were
instated on July 1 date back 6 months.”
He added "The biggest obstacle for Iran-US relations to grow is
the radicals in Iran, America, and Israel. American and Israeli radicals will
be happy with nothing less than to alter the system of the Islamic Republic. They
liked Said Jalili to rise to power, because they would not like the Islamic
Republic to survive, and to thrive and progress towards its real place within the
region and the world. These radicals would pray that some extremist like Jalili
would have risen to power. They were happy when Ahmadinejad was made President.
We must know that radicals such as Netanyahu will be in high spirits if someone
like Jalili or Ahmadinejad is in power.”
Regarding the views that Obama is under pressure to
put sanctions on Iran, Zibakalam said "It is a pity that Iranian radicals talk
of the US as if they are talking of a bag of potatoes, some of them being big
and the rest small, but in the end they all being potatoes. But America is a
dynamic society in which there are diverse modes of thought. In this country,
on one hand there are those who would not like to see the sight of the Islamic
Republic and would have it wiped out of history, but on the other hand there
are those who say that Iran’s local and international roles must be
acknowledged and one must hold talks with the country. This is the case with
the Iranian side as well.”
reporter: Sanaz Amiri