[Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr] Mottaki: The United States cannot support another crisis for its taxpayers. Certainly, the Americans have always made it clear that they are keeping all options open. From the very start, we have prepared ourselves for both a solution at the negotiating table and a confrontation. Naturally we prefer the first option. We hate war. But we also view resistance as our obligation.
So much for “the enemy doesn’t care about our domestic politics”. Nobody actually believes that, right? No one has ever believed that. That’s why politics used to stop at the water’s edge? Because everybody knows that of course the enemy monitors us for signs of weakness. That’s why every modern enemy that the US has faced has engaged in propaganda to weaken the home front.
The only difference is that in the past, our news agencies didn’t actively help them propagandize.
References:
* ‘We Warned the United States’ [Spiegel]
* Video: Ahmadinejad trying to find new ways to love [Hot Air]
Previously:
* Reuters Publishes State Department Leak: US Attack On Iran Would Be All-Out War
* Iran Funding All Sides Of Palestinian Non-Civil War
* Iran Enriches Uranium – Good Job Europe!
