By John Lillpop ——Bio and Archives--March 22, 2015
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Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday ruled out any cooperation with the United States in the troubled Middle East, saying talks with Washington are confined to nuclear issues.
In a closely watched speech marking the Persian new year festival of Nowruz, Khamenei took steps to quell speculation that any nuclear deal with the West could lead to a wider rapprochement. "No way," he told a raucous crowd in the northeastern holy city of Mashhad, on the chances of an agreement on Iran's atomic program having other policy implications. "Negotiations with the United States are on the nuclear issue and nothing else," he said. "US objectives on regional matters are the opposite to our objectives," Khamenei said, accusing Washington of creating instability in Syria, Libya and Egypt. His remarks were greeted by chants of "Death to America" from the tightly packed thousands who gathered to hear him speak. Khamenei's comments appeared to be a blunt rejection of overtures made by US President Barack Obama that a nuclear deal could lead to cooperation in the Middle East, chiefly against Islamic State jihadists in Iraq and Syria.”Thus ends Obama’s wretched week which started with an aborted death wish for Israel and concluded with “Death to America”chants in the terrorist capitol of the world! That man Obama certainly seems to have a world-class knack for doing the wrong thing at the wrong time! Happy New Year??? John W. Lillpop San Jose, California
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John W. Lillpop is a recovering liberal. “Clean and sober” since 1992 when last he voted for a Democrat. For years, John lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, the very liberal sanctuary city which protects, rather than prosecutes, certain favored criminals. John escaped the Bay Area in May and now lives in Pine Grove California where conservative values are still in vogue.