Obama Offered To Reestablish Full Ties With Iran

Obama Offered To Reestablish Full Ties With Iran, Israeli Paper Reports -- Times of Israel

Israel was told about and opposed president’s diplomatic incentives package, initiated soon after he took office, and Iran rebuffed it, according to Maariv.

Soon after he took office, President Barack Obama began a process ultimately designed to reestablish full US diplomatic relations with Iran, including a reopening of embassies, an Israeli daily reported Sunday. The initiative, part of a wider shift in America’s diplomatic orientation, aimed at reaching understandings with Tehran over suspending its nuclear program, Maariv claimed, citing “two Western diplomats very close to the administration.”

The initiative led to at least two US-Iran meetings, the report said. Israel was made aware of the contacts, and opposed them.

But Iran rebuffed the “diplomatic hand” offered by the White House, Maariv reported. The Islamist regime “opposed any sign of normalization with the US, and refused to grant a ‘prize’ to the Americans,” according to an anonymous Israeli source quoted by the paper.

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My Comment: This is old news .... it has been known for a long time that President Obama has sent 'letters' to the Iranian leadership offering negotiations over a number of key issues .... the latest being this one. But the Iranians .... for their own reasons that no one outside the Iranian leadership circle is privy to .... have always refused.