President-Elect of Iran Says He Will Engage With the West

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Source: New York Times

Iran’s president-elect, Hassan Rouhani, said Saturday that he would engage with the West and fulfill his electoral promises to allow more freedom for the Iranian people.

Mr. Rouhani, who calls himself a moderate, won the June 14 presidential election by a large margin, surprising many who expected Iran’s governing establishment to block any candidate calling for change. Hinting at the revolutions that have ousted several leaders in the Middle East, Mr. Rouhani emphasized that it was important to listen to the “majority of Iranians.”

“In our region, there were some countries who miscalculated their positions, and you have witnessed what happened to them,” he said during a live broadcast of a conference organized by Voice and Vision, Iran’s state television and radio organization.

“The world is in a transitional mood, and a new order has yet to be established,” he said. “If we miscalculate our national situation, it will be detrimental for us.”

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/world/middleeast/president-elect-of-iran-says-he-will-engage-with-the-west.html

[Dustlawyer]

1. Hopefully they will veer off of this path they have been on.

[Iliyah]

2. The country is controlled by the Supreme head of their

religion so I doubt it.

[Kolesar]

3. Translation: Qaddafi got pulled out of a sewer pipe and executed. He doesn't want that. ... eom

[Sand Wind]

4. a different way to buy time until it is too late

They are doing that since when ?

TEHRAN – Iran will press ahead with its uranium enrichment program, Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Director Fereydoun Abbasi said on Friday, Reuters reported.

Speaking in Russia, Abbasi said that production of nuclear fuel would “continue in line with our declared goals. The enrichment linked to fuel production will also not change.”


Speaking through an interpreter to reporters at a nuclear energy conference in St Petersburg, he said work at Iran’s underground Fordo plant - which the West wants Iran to close - would also continue. Iran produces uranium enriched to 20 percent at Fordo.