[caption id="attachment_24326" align="alignright" width="210"] A view of Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant[/caption]
President Hassan Rouhani’s declaration on Tuesday, “We are ready to immediately resume talks on nuclear issue,” has continued with an Iranian media campaign — part PR, part reality — for discussions.
Fars features a statement by the head of Iran’s armed forces, General Hassan Firouzabadi, invoking Ayatollah Khamenei, “As the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution has said we don’t rule out negotiations, [though] we see the sanctions as a non-military and soft invasion.”

At the same time, Firouzabadi denounced last week’s move in the US Congress for more sanctions on Tehran, “The US is devil in nature and we don’t expect anything other than this from that government.”

Fars also highlights a letter to Rouhani from Catherine Ashton — the European Union’s foreign policy chief and lead negotiator for the 5+1 Powers on the nuclear issue — “I stand ready to continue talks to find a resolution to Iran’s nuclear issue as quickly as possible.”

Meanwhile, Press TV’s lead story casts Israel as the threat to engagement. It quotes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking to visiting US legislators, “I know that some place their hopes on Iran’s new President….And while everybody is busy talking to him…the centrifuges [for uranium enrichment] will keep on spinning,.

By Enduring America

 

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