Iran ready for talks ‘toward peace’ with Arab states

Tehran and Riyadh are involved in proxy wars across the region, backing opposite sides in Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Lebanon.

Rouhani made a point to stress that Trump’s visit came amid Iran’s presidential election, saying that such elections “are not in their (Saudis’) dictionary”.

Trump called on Arab and Muslim governments to deal with the ideology behind terrorism and extremism. President Hassan Rouhani won his second term with 57 percent of the vote while his opponent fellow-cleric, head of the chief shrine of Mashhad, Ebrahim Raisi got only 38 percent.

Analysts familiar with Iran’s political system quickly responded that those are not things Rouhani could do, as Iranian military operations are not within his sphere of control.

Annan said he would also Trump that the USA should honor the nuclear agreement, which he called a “good” deal.

“The countries of the region need more cooperation and consultations to resolve the crisis in the region and we are ready to cooperate in this field”, Mr Rouhani told the Qatari ruler, according to Iran’s state news agency IRNA.

Undoubtedly, a contributing factor to Iran’s economic failure is the refusal of major European banks to finance trade deals, coupled with an extension of American sanctions and the suspicious attitude of U.S. President Donald J. Trump.

In all this, Rouhani’s reformism can fix the US’ attention on Iran’s commitment to peace and security-including the release of opposition figures, more freedom of thought and fewer restrictions on daily life (Edbrink, 2017).

“The problem is that the Americans do not know our region and those who advise United States officials are misleading them”.

Isolating and pressuring Iran will not alone lead to Iranian policies benefitting the U.S. And Washington’s total alignment with Saudi Arabia and other Arab states at the expense of Iran is more likely to make the average Iranian support his or her country’s efforts against those states. However, the possibility of Iran and Russian Federation having different interests in Syria at a some point is quite possible: this is evidenced, among other things, by Moscow’s calm reaction to the Israeli Air Forces’ air strikes on Hezbollah’s positions in Syria. But who funded the terrorists? “The “fight against terrorism” is aimed at making all the Kabuki [stylized acting] palatable for the American and world audience”, Giraldi said.

One way the Guards could re-assert their dominance at home would be to stoke more confrontation overseas, where they provide the shock troops for Iran’s interventions in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – For Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, winning re-election may have been the easy part. This didn’t happen. Now the West is talking about Rouhani’s landslide victory in the latest election.

“Maybe it will help if Saudi leaders let their people to decide over their country’s fate by casting their vote”.

He was less flattering in his assessment of the Trump administration so far.

Municipal councils have been in Iran’s constitution since after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

“When they attacked Afghanistan, they made a mistake”. The Trump administration in February sanctioned more than two dozen people and companies in retaliation for a ballistic missile test, warning it had put the Islamic Republic “on notice“.

“The Iranian nation has chose to be powerful”.