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Obama's letter exposes US dishonesty with Iran : CASMII
London, May 29, IRNA – US President Barack Obama has been accused of being dishonest with Iran after the publication of his letter to Brazilian President Lula da Silva showing support for negotiations that led to the ground-breaking Tehran Declaration.
“Washington supported mediation by Brazil and Turkey when it did not expect them to succeed and turned its back when they accomplished exactly what the Obama administration said it sought from Iran,” the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) said.
“The contradiction between President Obama's letter to President Lula and the US response to the Brazil-Iran-Turkey offer is the latest evidence that the US does not intend to negotiate with Iran in good faith and has hidden motives,” CASMII said.
“Under pressure from the same neoconservatives and Israel lobby that pushed the Bush Administration to invade Iraq illegally, the Obama Administration is inventing excuses to avoid a peaceful resolution to the stand-off with Iran,” it said.
The full text of the April letter, now released by the Brazilian government, expresses strong encouragement for the intermediaries to negotiate with Iran over sending 1,200 kg of its low enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for fuel rods for the Tehran Research Reactor.
In a statement obtained by IRNA, CASMII said Obama’s support “completely contradicted Washington’s hostile response three weeks later to the Tehran Declaration, in which Iran agreed to precisely such an exchange.”
On May 18, a day after the Declaration was issued, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton dismissed the Brazil-Iran-Turkey offer and announced instead a draft UN Security Council resolution to impose a new round of sanctions on Iran.
The punitive escalation, Clinton said, was "as convincing an answer to the efforts undertaken by Tehran over the last few days as any we could have taken."
“This was predictable. Washington grew visibly nervous as signs emerged that Brazil and Turkey might achieve peacefully what threats and sanctions from major powers had not accomplished in Iran,” CASMII said.
“But as Obama initially agreed in his letter, the nuclear fuel swap agreed to by Iran is actually an historic breakthrough. A new round of sanctions on Iran that the US is now seeking would surely sabotage this historic opportunity,” it said.
It said that it was imperative for “world public opinion, the international peace and justice movement, and all non-aligned countries exert pressure on UN Security Council members to defeat the US-led draft sanctions resolution.”
“Washington needs to demonstrate it is sincere by negotiating with Iran on the basis of the Tehran declaration.”
CASMII was set up in London by Iranian and non-Iranian academics, students and professional of different political persuasions as an independent campaign organisation with the purpose of opposing sanctions and foreign interference in Iran./end
“Washington supported mediation by Brazil and Turkey when it did not expect them to succeed and turned its back when they accomplished exactly what the Obama administration said it sought from Iran,” the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) said.
“The contradiction between President Obama's letter to President Lula and the US response to the Brazil-Iran-Turkey offer is the latest evidence that the US does not intend to negotiate with Iran in good faith and has hidden motives,” CASMII said.
“Under pressure from the same neoconservatives and Israel lobby that pushed the Bush Administration to invade Iraq illegally, the Obama Administration is inventing excuses to avoid a peaceful resolution to the stand-off with Iran,” it said.
The full text of the April letter, now released by the Brazilian government, expresses strong encouragement for the intermediaries to negotiate with Iran over sending 1,200 kg of its low enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for fuel rods for the Tehran Research Reactor.
In a statement obtained by IRNA, CASMII said Obama’s support “completely contradicted Washington’s hostile response three weeks later to the Tehran Declaration, in which Iran agreed to precisely such an exchange.”
On May 18, a day after the Declaration was issued, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton dismissed the Brazil-Iran-Turkey offer and announced instead a draft UN Security Council resolution to impose a new round of sanctions on Iran.
The punitive escalation, Clinton said, was "as convincing an answer to the efforts undertaken by Tehran over the last few days as any we could have taken."
“This was predictable. Washington grew visibly nervous as signs emerged that Brazil and Turkey might achieve peacefully what threats and sanctions from major powers had not accomplished in Iran,” CASMII said.
“But as Obama initially agreed in his letter, the nuclear fuel swap agreed to by Iran is actually an historic breakthrough. A new round of sanctions on Iran that the US is now seeking would surely sabotage this historic opportunity,” it said.
It said that it was imperative for “world public opinion, the international peace and justice movement, and all non-aligned countries exert pressure on UN Security Council members to defeat the US-led draft sanctions resolution.”
“Washington needs to demonstrate it is sincere by negotiating with Iran on the basis of the Tehran declaration.”
CASMII was set up in London by Iranian and non-Iranian academics, students and professional of different political persuasions as an independent campaign organisation with the purpose of opposing sanctions and foreign interference in Iran./end
