Hamid Aboutalebi tweeted this in his official Twitter page, and during some tweets, addressed the current exchange of ideas, albeit indirect, between President Obama of the US and President Rouhani of Iran. “President Rouhani has threatened that Iran would not sign a deal unless all sanctions are removed on the same day of the deal; now, both Iran and the US are on the threshold of a practicing politics and diplomacy,” he twitted.
Quoting Obama, Aboutalebi turned to US side; “since Obama has said if both sides hammer out a diplomatic deal, it will be a forerunner of a new era in mutual relations, this is the last option available to embark on cooperation, since both agree that nuclear negotiations provides the venue to test political wills on both sides,” Aboutalebi wrote on his second tweet.
Still in another tweet, he tailored solution to nuclear issue to realism in part of the US officials; “to solve nuclear issue, US should exercise realism and build confidence through leaving claims aside and removing sanctions, so that dialogue would be initiated,” he wrote.
“The US has gone a long way moving from coup d’état, toppling democracy, war, and sanctions to diplomacy; this is for the very reason why Obama says in his psychological assessment of the Iranians, that the issue [mistrust of the US] has roots in their past experiences; the perception that Iran has been weakened; that the US and the west first toppled their democratic government and then supported Shah and later supported Iraq in the violent war launched by Saddam Hossein,” Aboutalebi tweeted.
“If both countries fail to understand that they could agree through talks, how they could agree on such a critical issue as nuclear issue?” he asked rhetorically. “The Leader’s words addressed mainly the US leadership and Obama,” he tweeted, calling all sides “not to miss the importance of an initiation of Iran-US détente, which be believed, was no less important than nuclear issue, thus sending himself into spotlight as an optimist about Iran-US relations, which has been so far among the taboos in Iranian foreign policy."
