Iranians Will ‘Cut Your Throat,’ Ex-US Official Warns Negotiators
They’re ‘known as great rug merchants, not for nothing,’ Reagan-era secretary of state George Shultz tells BBC as talks in Geneva kick off
lan Ben Zion * Times Of Israel
A former senior US official on Thursday used tough rhetoric in warning the Obama administration to employ vigilance in engaging Iran in the ongoing nuclear negotiations with world powers.
“The Iranians are known as great rug merchants, not for nothing,” the 92-year-old former US secretary of state George Shultz told the BBC in an interview. “They’re good at this business of smiling, encouraging you on and then cutting your throat, so you have to be tough-minded, you have to be realistic.”
Shultz added that Iran is “a pretty tough customer” and the world’s largest state-supporter of terrorism, including support for Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The French foreign minister on Thursday said world powers needed to be firm in their dealings with Iran over the country’s nuclear program during talks in Geneva, which began on Wednesday.
Asked by France 2 television whether he thought there could be a deal with Tehran this week, Laurent Fabius said, “I hope so.”
“But this agreement can only be based on firmness,” he added.
Iran and six world powers — the US, the UK, France, Russia, China and Germany — reconvened talks Thursday morning, and Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi told the press tha Tehran wouldn’t accept any plans which bar Iran’s right to enrich uranium, reiterating Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s statement that such a demand is a “red line.” He added that the Islamic Republic wouldn’t take big steps for small concessions, but voiced optimism that talks would continue.
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The Iranians are just going to have to wait their turn! there is a long queue of folk waiting in line to cut these prats to pieces!
This JERK never heard of the USS LIBERTY, the LAVON Affair, COUNTLESS Jewish SPIES (Johnathan Pollard), or Rachel Corrie?
Israel has never created a national Constitution, nor will it define its exact borders. Under those two requirements, Israel’s statehood is dubious at best.
Wow, for Israel, throwing white phosphorous on a bunch of kids constitutes “self-defense”!
We can’t trust Iranians but but we can trust jews. yea right uh huh ok
Iran hasn’t attacked another country in years! oh hang on, how about Anglo America? hmmmm… lets get real, oh who was it that nuked Japan? twice! oh yeah… the word of the US is no longer taken seriously.. nor has it really ever been and nor will it ever. from here on in, America will find itself cut off from the rest of the world due to its “lets go get em” policy on foreign affairs.
Personally, i can’t for the Dollar to be taken off the global stage of currency, this bring much joy to nearly every country on earth.