IRINN Denounces Rice Middle East Visit as "Propaganda Maneuver"

IRINN Denounces Rice Middle East Visit as "Propaganda Maneuver"
Friday, February 23, 2007

Broadcast 23 February on Iranian state satellite TV (IRINN):

Announcer: The meeting of the diplomatic Quartet concerning the changes in Palestine ended without any result and the participants announced that before deciding on the revocation of the diplomatic and economic sanctions against the Palestinians they will wait for the formation of a united national Palestinian government.

This was this group's second meeting this month, attended by Russia, the EU, America and the UN. Despite this, after two hours of negotiations the participants were unable to reach an agreement on the division of power between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and the Hamas movement.

Political Affairs Expert Ghadiri-Abyaneh: The Quartet is mostly determined to act in Israel's interest and to disregard the rights of the Palestinians. This has always been the policy of Europe and America, and their actions are therefore in this framework.

Before they begin negotiations, they want the new government of Palestine to recognize the Zionist regime officially and to endorse previous agreements. ... Why did they fight? Why did they even come to the negotitations if they were going to accept the road map?

On the one hand they do not accept the proposal from the Palestinians that they recognize the government of Palestine officially.

Announcer: These changes are taking place at a time when America and the Zionist regime do not desire unity among the Palestinian groups and regard the Mecca agreement as insufficient. They unilaterally expect these groups to accept all the international community's conditions.

This committee has stipulated as requirements for the beginning of diplomatic relations with the autonomous Palestinian organizations the official recognition of Jerusalem's occupier regime, the condemnation of violence and the acceptance of previous agreements by the Palestinians with the Zionist regime, including the road map.

Ghadiri-Abyaneh: The other laws have been observed in the UN. Nations have the rights to freedom and security. They have the right to be independent in their own countries, but the Quartet does not emphasize these issues.

Political Affairs Expert Shaykh ol-Eslam: It is a red line for us that Israel should ever be recognized. The important thing is this very issue that we do not acknowledge Israel's right to exist. This is hard for the Israelis and the others. They are putting pressure on this very point. In other words they are using economic and political sanctions and a great deal of propaganda pressure.

They are trying to bring down the Palestinian government because it does not recognize Israel's existence. Europe is continuing the same thing. This is exactly what the Americans are trying to impose on the government of Palestine through the Quartet.

Announcer: This is at a time when the American government's recent efforts to hold the three-way meeting between Rice, Olmert and Abbas with the objective of finding a final solution to the Palestinian question and to form two independent Palestinian and Zionist nations have been nothing but repetition.

Rice's remarks after meeting with Abbas were indicative of this reality, because she acknowledged the likelhood that the White House would not officially recognize the future unity government of Palestine, and in so doing she effectively announced America's final position on solving the Palestine problem.

Shaykh ol-Eslam: It appears there is a plot between the Americans and the Israelis not to allow the Palestine unity government to form. The important thing here is the agreement within Palestine that if a unity government is formed there is no necessity or commitment to recognize Israel. This is the same conditions under which the resistance is continuing.

Announcer: In reality, these conditions will give the Zionist regime the opportunity to define the independent government of Palestine based on its own criteria, in such a way that the future government of Palestine's prerogatives will be more limited than they are now.

It is natural that in such a process the formation of a Palestinian government without the benefit of an armed force or an independent foreign policy, without granting the right of return to 5 million Palestinian refugees and an ambiguous future for Jerusalem, which could solve the Palestine problem at its roots.

Therefore Rice's trip to the region and her two- and three-way meetings with the leaders of Palestine and the Zionist regime was merely a propaganda and political maneuver which was for domestic consumption by the American Republican Party and the triumvirate of Dick Cheney, George Bush and Condoleeza Rice.

Dr. Ghadiri Abyaneh
http://www.ghadiri.org/archives/002450.html