Sunday July 20, 2008

I've Been Thinking:

Imagine my surprise when I read the following quotes from the Iranian Vice President Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei.

"No nation in the world is our enemy, Iran is a friend of the nation in the United States and in Israel, and this is an honor. We view the American nation as one with the greatest nations of the world."

These words were said at a tourism convention in Teheran.
There was no coverage in the Iranian press, the quote can only be found on the vice president's web page.

The Iranian vice president has since recanted his statement to IRNA, the official Iranian news agency.
But he has continued to say that "we do not want war with any country."
Never before has any official in the Islamic Republic ever even intimated, let alone said outright, anything like this about Israel.

The question is: does Rahim-Mashaei stand alone or was he sent out to test the waters in a new government-led campaign?

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