The commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards said Monday that President Hasan Rouhani should have refused to take last week’s historic telephone call from US counterpart Barack Obama.
It was the first public criticism by a senior Iranian official of Friday’s landmark first contact between leaders of the two countries since the rupture of diplomatic relations in the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic revolution.
“The president took a firm and appropriate position during his stay” in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, General Mohammad Ali Jafari said in an interview with the Tasnimnews.com website.
“But just as he refused to meet Obama, he should also have refused to speak with him on the telephone and should have waited for concrete action by the United States.”
The government can make “tactical errors” but these can be “repaired,” said Jafari
“If we see errors being made by officials, the revolutionary forces will issue the necessary warnings,” he added.
The public criticism came despite appeals earlier this month by both Rouhani and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for the Guards, who have long seen themselves as guardians of the values of the revolution, to steer clear of politics.
Jafari said Washington should respond to the good will shown by Rouhani in New York by “lifting all sanctions against the Iranian nation, releasing Iranian assets frozen in the United States, ending its hostility toward Iran and accepting Iran’s nuclear program.”
The commander of the Guards air wing General Amir-Ali Hadjizadeh told the corps’ own sepahnews.com website that “US hostility can’t be forgotten with a phone call and a smile.”
On September 17, Khamenei said it was “unnecessary” for the Guards to get involved in politics.
The previous day, Rouhani called on the Guards to “stand above political tendencies.”
Rouhani’s contact with Obama was broadly welcomed in the Iranian press as well as abroad, but a small group of hard-line Islamists protested outside Tehran’s Mehrabad airport on his return.
A shoe was thrown, as the protesters chanted: “Death to America,” a slogan that was long a ritual refrain at official rallies.
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Iran Guard chief criticizes the Rouhani-Obama phone call
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12 responses to “Iran Guard chief criticizes the Rouhani-Obama phone call”
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Yallah .. and Shite! We don’t want them talking … We want to keep killing people. You’re messing up our ‘training plan’ and the tramping on the ground exercises we worked on for 40 years!!
Besides, we keep losing shoes…. -
Yallah .. and Shite! We don’t want them talking … We want to keep killing people. You’re messing up our ‘training plan’ and the tramping on the ground exercises we worked on for 40 years!!
Besides, we keep losing shoes…. -
Why of course you dont approve. you are a man of war! when will the opinion ordinary of citizens count? allways the ones with the gun or the politician on the high horse steering the bus with no progress or results whatsoever, people are tired of all the chess games THEY JUST WANT TO LIVE!!!!
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Why of course you dont approve. you are a man of war! when will the opinion ordinary of citizens count? allways the ones with the gun or the politician on the high horse steering the bus with no progress or results whatsoever, people are tired of all the chess games THEY JUST WANT TO LIVE!!!!
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The Guards are involved in politics !!!That is the problem!!
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The Guards are involved in politics !!!That is the problem!!
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“If we see errors being made by officials, the revolutionary forces will issue the necessary warnings,” he added.
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New revolution possibly?
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“If we see errors being made by officials, the revolutionary forces will issue the necessary warnings,” he added.
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New revolution possibly?
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America, Iran politicians, quds forces and khomeni are bunking eachother. Nothing happens without the other persons knowledge.
The tyre heads have been working covertly with america to install iranian mouth peice’s in afghanistan and iraq and soon will try to overthrow assad to try and control syria (legaly).
They use reverse psychology when they say the sunni revoloutionaries are puppets to the west and now its been made clear that they are the ones being puppets.
History shows us they always have been the tour guides for every major war in the middle east led by their ally against a proper functioning government. -
America, Iran politicians, quds forces and khomeni are bunking eachother. Nothing happens without the other persons knowledge.
The tyre heads have been working covertly with america to install iranian mouth peice’s in afghanistan and iraq and soon will try to overthrow assad to try and control syria (legaly).
They use reverse psychology when they say the sunni revoloutionaries are puppets to the west and now its been made clear that they are the ones being puppets.
History shows us they always have been the tour guides for every major war in the middle east led by their ally against a proper functioning government. -
All nations will eventually worship the Lord Jesus Christ in Jerusalem, The City of the Great King……..
…….Jeremiah 3:17……….
“At that time Jerusalem shall be called The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem. No more shall they follow the dictates of their evil hearts.
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All nations will eventually worship the Lord Jesus Christ in Jerusalem, The City of the Great King……..
…….Jeremiah 3:17……….
“At that time Jerusalem shall be called The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem. No more shall they follow the dictates of their evil hearts.
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