Dotting the I’S & Crossing the T’S
What did Obama tell Al-Khamenei and why?
Written by Nasser Kandil,
It is stable that the President Barak Obama has initiated four times to communicate with the Islamic Republic Leader in Iran; Al Sayyed Ali Khamenei, and it stable as well that Al Sayyed Al Khamenei did not send any message directly to the President Obama, but he just responded either with the delegates who carried the letter or through media.
There is not any diplomatic relations between Iran and America, but there is a negotiation about the Iranian nuclear issue, that includes Washington and other permanent members in the Security Council and Germany. Under this negotiation there were more than a meeting that includes the foreign ministers of the two countries, the last of which was when President Obama has sent his last letter on the evening of 27th of the last month.
It is known that the first message was in the phase of the American military maneuvers in the Gulf, where Iran has mobilized its missile weapons offshore, and has made a contrary comprehensive maneuver, so the reason of that message as Obama said, is that the maneuvers and the American military presence are not to provoke Iran, which Washington does not want a clash with it, but to have negotiated solutions for all the problems.
The penultimate message was met with violent and sarcastic response from Al Sayyed Khamenei, as an expression of his refusal to participate in the war alliance against ISIL before its establishment, and based on what he witnessed, that America is not serious in this war, but it just takes it as a coverage to deploy its troops in the region and not to end ISIL.
It is known that the countries which have diplomacy and giant intelligence services and a rank like America, do not resort to presidential messages, while all the communication channels are available, including what is on the level of foreign ministers, only if they want to present comprehensive offers and visions that transcend what it can be discussed at the ministerial level, and just to draw a background for serious relations in this crucial time for critical issues that involve the going of the letter’s responsible to an understanding or to confrontation.
This time, there is something different has happened, Al Sayyed Khamenei did not respond publically, Iran has reserved of the message, and Washington has ignored, but when the message was revealed, the White House spokesman has avoided the comments because he is not authorized to talk about the correspondences of the President with the world leaders.
This time, the message has been sent within hours after the meeting of the two Foreign Ministers Mohammed Jawad Zarif and John Kerry, as if Kerry has heard from Zarif what is inspected to be in the message, which has been received in the time of aggravation in American relations with the its traditional allies in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Israel, and it is proved that their capabilities have been exhausted to present what is of valuable for the American strategies in the time of the war against terrorism, which only the allies of Iran mastered from Yemen to Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon.
Why did the President Obama emphasize in his message that the Washington’s foreign policies and especially in the Middle East are drawn just with the American interests, as the alliances which are the result of the agreement on the common goals and the ability to achieve them, as if it was a response for an Iranian accusation carried by Zarif to Kerry through saying: » We do not trust the feasibility of the negotiation with you about the regional affairs, because you do nothing, but only when you give those who do not want the good for Iran in Saudi Arabia and Israel an opportunity to use the veto, so why do you want our trust, and why do you ask us for the consult for a cooperation in the region policies «. After that, the message was received with an implicit response that the time of the allies’ partnership in drawing the politics and determining the alliances has ended
Why did the President Obama cite in his message a confirmation that he and his administration have not ask anyone to negotiate on their behalf with Iran?, although he knows that some of the friends have suggested their ability to contribute in overcoming the obstacles between the two countries, in other words, this suggestion does not mean that those have got the authorization from anyone, since Washington wanted a direct negotiation and a direct cooperation, it appreciated the rank of Iran, its role in the region, the magnitude of its ability to contribute in the war against ISIL, and its leadership’s position in this war, as if the implicit answer, which Kerry carried to his President about the Turkish claims that the President Obama has asked the Turkish President Recep Erdogan to manage his relationship with Iran. The response was: ” its Erdogan wishes to grab the role of a mediator through these claims”.
The information says that Tehran wanted to see that Washington proves the credibility of its message by daring to hold a triple American European and Iranian meeting in Masqat. Which is the only common friend according to Iran’s classification which deserves this status through hosting the meeting, and what it will lead to agreements that establish an understanding concerning the nuclear file, and towards searching for the commons in the regional affairs that the war against terrorism file is at forefront, in addition to the issues of Yemen, Iraq, and Syria.
The available information says that the leakage of the message’s information on the eve of the planned triple meeting in Masqat between Kerry, Zarif, and Ashtoun, which will be held on the 9th of this month, aims to confuse the meeting, and try to terminate it, but the American Iranian communications prove their insistence to hold it on its time and its headlines, despite the Saudi, Turkish, Israeli, and Qatar ‘s strangulation.
This meeting was preceded by an exchange of papers, which is coordinated by the Omani diplomacy, headed by the Foreign Minister Saeed Bin Alawi, so as a result, most of the obstacles regarding the understanding on the nuclear file have been overcome, all the way for the completion on the 24th of this month, starting with the acknowledgement of the depending on the political solution in Syrian and Yemen through a coalition transitional government based on the current constitution and presidency without preconditions, and ends with ballot boxes. The common title is gathering the forces which are ready to participate in the war against terrorism.
For the next stage, there are many surprises, in which its forefront is the rising of Masqat’s role, the abandonment of Washington of its slogan of overthrowing the President Bashar Al-Assad, and the admission of the retreat of the roles of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Israel for the account of an Iranian pivotal role in the war against terrorism and in securing the stability.
Spring 2015 is crucial and full of news.
2014-11-09 | عدد القراءات 1507
