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Tehran hopes Obama will "choose right path" towards Iran
Jan 20, 2009, 10:17 GMT
Tehran - Iran hoped that new US-President Barack Obama will 'choose the right path' towards Iran, ISNA news agency reported Tuesday.
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said that the US had no correct approach towards Iran and always been the 'troublemaker.'
'But if Obama chose the right path, compensated the past, lifted hostility and [US] hegemony, and revised the previous political mistakes, we would have no hostility,' Mottaki said.
'We hope that angles of optimism would be created [with Obama] but the facts tell us we should not be optimistic,' he added.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said last week that 'if the changes [as proclaimed by Obama] were real and the new approach was based on respect and friendship, then we would welcome it.'
Iran and the United States have had no diplomatic ties for almost three decades but Tehran hopes that at least direct talks could be resumed with the Obama administration.
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AssKickinJan 20th, 2009 - 10:46:58
Yea me too, I hope he gives them an ass kickin'.
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