Iran is determined to make a official complaint to the United nations opposing the US after President Obama left out Iran from a pledge to never to utilize nuclear weapons on nations that don’t own them, the Foreign Ministry stated on Sunday.Foreign Ministry claimed that the US President`s inexplicit threat to utilize nuclear weapons on Iran was a risk to worldwide peace as well as security.Past Sunday, 222 lawmakers within Iran’s 290seat parliament asked for the Iranian government to lodge the complaint.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who makes all the final decisions on the nation`s matters also stated that Obama’s threatening words is evident that the United states can’t be trusted. President obama made it public about the recent nuclear policy on Tuesday, which consisted of a oath not to make use of nuclear weapons against nations that don’t own them. Iran, then again, was not in that pledge with North Korea, as Washington charging them of not collaborating with all the worldwide community on nonproliferation standards. President obama’s latest nuclear plan diverts the United states focus away from the Cold War risks in addition to that is designed to end the distribution of atomic weapons to unlawful states or terrorists. U.S. Defense Secretary stated that the target would be on terror organisations like al-Qaida and North Korea’s nuclear upsurge as well as Iran’s strong desire to attain nuclear. The United states along with a few of its allies charged Iran of attempting to create nuclear weapons. Iran has disagreed with that, claiming its nuclear agenda is peaceful purposes only.

Iran`s foreign ministry claimed that they will will officially give thier complaint to the UN in response to such threats on Sunday as well as claiming that the statements illustrate that nations owning nuclear weapons are the major threat to global security. At the moment Iran is still going ahead with its nuclear buildup. On Friday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad revealed a 3rd generation of centrifuge with the aim of using it to speed up a uranium enrichment program which is of main concern went it comes to the United states as well as its allies. Enrichment is utilized to create energy for nuclear powerplants, however it additionally offers a probable pathway to nuclear weapons creation. 3 sets of United Nations sanctions previously had been unsuccesful in pressuring Iran to put to an end enrichment. The US is heading the push meant for a 4th set of penalties.

The Secretary of State for the US informed a news program on Sunday stating that Iran’s alleged progress should not be blindly accepted and believed without any doubt. Nevertheless Clinton also said that the Iranian`s that their hostility is proving our case everytime. Nations that have doubts concerning Iranian motives, who possibly might have questioned if Iran was on the lookout for nuclear weapons, are getting those doubts resolved by the proof presented as by what comes from the leadership of Iran.

The exemption from the United states nuclear program pledge indicates a threat to Tehran. However the recent nuclear policy suggestions also strives to show that Washington is determined about cutting down its own nuclear weapons as well as getting worldwide support in favor of stricter safeguards opposing nuclear proliferation which is also a measure meant at further isolating Iran diplomatically. Iran’s top leader Khamenei stated that the US president’s comments were appalling as he said that the United States president has indirectly threatened the Iran with nuclear weapons. He also indicated that the comments are very odd and the world shouldn’t disregard it as in the 21st century the head of a state is threatening a nuclear attack, which he suggested that U.S. government is a rogue government that cannot be trusted.

On Sunday, Iran also proclaimed the creation of a cutting edge anti-aircraft system with the ability to strike an aircraft at low as well as medium altitudes. The recent defense system utilizes Shahin missiles, which is a version of the 1970s era U.S. produced Hawk missile. Iran is aiming to improve its air defenses, particularly as Israel as well as the U.S. have declined to rule out airstrikes if diplomacy is unsuccessful to bring to an end Iran’s enrichment program. Iran’s nuclear facilities are distributed all over the nation as well as a few are deep underground or within mountainsides to shield them from assaults

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I have always said that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the Iranian version of President W. George Bush. Well, he recently made remarks that virtually prove me right; He basically told the United States that we be with the Iranians or the Zionists. Well we suggest Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reply…

President Ahmadinejad has given the ultimatum to President Obama : Choose between us or the Zionists. He went as far as to say that he cannot shake our President’s hand because we support and are friends of Israel.

This is the time to draw the line in the sand. If he wants us to choose, than we can give him a choice in return. Choose between being friends with all, or be friends with none at all. It is a very simple ultimatum for President Ahmadinejad to consider.

President Obama can throw in the names of his political challenger Mir-Hossein Moussavi and Neda Agha-Soltan, an innocent girl that was executed and considered a martyr against the cause of President Ahmadinejad. That is how we can play politics with Iran.

I think the biggest players here would be the Russians. It is Russia that is supplying Iran with the nuclear materials like uranium. Right now, Washington and Jerusalem can pressure the Russians with statement like these. If he can make an ultimatum with us today, he can make an ultimatum with the Russians tomorrow. Clever diplomacy can put the pressure on the Russians who can single-handedly stop Iran.

I suggest that we start drawing our big stick with regards to Iranian-American diplomacy. They think they want to show their stick, lets show them ours. It is definitely bigger and holds more ground. We have the backing of many countries all over the world.

I have always wanted the ties between Iran and America to normalize. For one, Iranians cut more slack when it comes to religion as compared to other states. There are still very strict with their version of Islamic laws. But it is still not as bad as many in the Middle East. We do not see women in burkhas which Bill Maher calls bee suits in Iran, we tend to see women wearing scarves.

A second reason is that Iran is strategically located. Russia to the North, Middle East to the West and South Asia and Afghanistan to its East. I think that stabilizing Iran would make a lot of regions live in peace.

However, we are not playing the bad guys in terms of diplomacy. It is the Iranians under the leadership of President Ahmadinejad. We did not set about new ultimatums or ask them to dump their friends. They did. It is they that want to draw the guns and play the diplomatic version of Russian roulette.

So my suggestion is this, if we have to forgo peace with Iran due to this, lets forgo it. Lets us get our guns ready. It is not us that forgo peace for war, it is the Iranians. We should not forget that they had a great chance under President Obama and they are throwing it away…

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In the recent weeks on unrest and turmoil, it seems impossible that there could be a middle ground in Iranian politics, to most people. Yet, by any accords the person that is walking on that line and could sway Iran in any direction possible is ex-President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

First, a background on ex-President Rafsanjani. He right now the only balance of power that can remove the Supreme Leader in Iran, but there are many ways to remove President Rafsanjani too. He was a President from 1989-1997, and lost to current President Ahmadinejad. He was considered a right-winder till recently, where he sought to mend ties with the US. He still wants nuclear weapons and hates Israel though.

The reason that he is considered to be in the middle right now is very simple: He has not endorsed anyone yet. He has been giving mixed signals. He was initially delighted with the turnout in Iran. He also then made a bizarre claim that there would not be a power crisis after this crisis fades out. His most recent statement is that Iranians are still very bitter about the elections despite the recount.

However, something has changed. In the recent hours, there have been calls for the “Reformists” from the Moussavi camp to be indicted on charges of stirring trouble and causing unrest. I think that this would be the time where you can see on which side, President Rafsanjani is on. If he says that they should stand trial, you know that he is with the conservatives. If he is against it, you would know that he is with the “Reformists” or at least not bent on them going down.

It would also be interesting to see how he is going to handle the military complex within Iran that has seen its power surge in recent days. When the crisis began, Iran was a dictatorship that was very much influenced by clerics.

However, the crisis has divided the clerical world in Iran in half, right down the middle. It is the military and militant forces like the Basiji that has usurped the power vacuum. This is one area that some Republicans got it wrong, calling Iran a “Mullah dictatorship”. But have no doubt though, that the person in charge is still Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.

The tide of American-Iranian relations is still in rough waters. It is up to President Rafsanjani more than anyone else to steer it clear or otherwise. There is some signs of his influence working. There are already several reports which ST cannot confirm that claim that President Ahmadinejad wants to talk to President Obama on some undisclosed matters. That would not have happened without President Rafsanjani.

In most dramatic terms, the fate of Middle East, America and potentially rests on the judgment of President Rafsanjani. He is now at a cross-roads of history. Lets hope that he chooses the right path, for the sake of Iran and the Middle East.

Suggested reading : CNN, AL Jazeera, Reuters

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