America must abandon totalitarianism

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی
Tehran: Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that Tehran was just "inches away" from a peace deal with Washington before the weekend talks with the United States collapsed in Islamabad. He said the Iranian delegation negotiated with the US in "good faith" for an end to the war, but they encountered "maximalism, shifting goalposts, and blockade" from the American side.

"In intensive talks at the highest level in 47 years, Iran engaged with the US in good faith to end the war. But when just inches away from the "Islamabad MoU", we encountered maximalism, shifting goalposts, and blockade," Araghchi stated. "Zero lessons earned. Goodwill begets goodwill. Enmity begets enmity."

President Masoud Pezeshkian echoed Araghchi's stance, saying a diplomatic breakthrough with Washington is still possible if the US abandons totalitarianism and respects Iran's rights. He added that under such conditions, "ways to reach an agreement will certainly be found."
 

Trump's framing of war as Iran's barbarism vs civilised West is a huge lie​




Conceptual fallacies lie at the heart of the illegal American-Israeli assault on Iran.

The first is the idea that Iran is a barbaric country, stuck in the Middle Ages, and incapable of fitting in with the modern world. As Trump put it when asked why striking Iranian bridges and power plants would not be a war crime. He replied: "They’re animals."

The second mistake concerns the belief that the United States represents western civilisation.

In this article we subject these basic assumptions to scrutiny by examining the intellectual accomplishments and capacity of leading figures on both sides.

We show that Iran’s leadership is far more sophisticated, intelligent, literate and accomplished than Trump’s United States.

Let’s start with a comparison between Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s former supreme leader who was assassinated by the United States in the early hours of the war, and US President Donald Trump.

Khamenei was a Marja - an expert in Islamic jurisprudence in Twelver Shi’a Islam. The nearest British comparison might be king’s counsel or a high court judge.

The late supreme leader was also a superb linguist, fluent not just in his native Persian but also Arabic, Azeri and Turkish. He also knew a fair amount of English.

He was an enthusiast of Persian poetry but also read widely across western literature: Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, Dante Alighieri, John Steinbeck and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

In an interview he gave to Iran’s state-run television network in 2004, he stated:"In my opinion, Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables is the best novel that has been written." Pretty good judgment.

In Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, Trump’s biographer, Michael Wolff, stated: “Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semi-literate.”

The comparison between Dr Ali Larijani, Iran’s assassinated secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, and his closest US counterpart, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is very telling. Hegseth did study at Princeton, one of the most celebrated universities. But his academic record simply does not match up to Larijan.

Larijani obtained his PhD on Kantian mathematics and subsequently wrote three books on Kant.

Comparison between Larijani and the former Fox News presenter, drunkard and bigot Pete Hegseth is simply embarrassing.
 
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