USA and Israel reaffirm their position ... while in Iran itself, Ahmedinejad has to be done, the Iranian presidential elections approaching.
The president-elect of the United States Barack Obama said Friday that Iran should "stop" supporting terrorist organizations, adding that the manufacture of nuclear weapons by Tehran was "unacceptable".
The attitude of Israel towards the Iranian nuclear issue remains unchanged, and the Hebrew state does not exclude any option to settle, said Friday its part the Israeli Minister of Defense, Ehud Barak, in an interview to Jerusalem with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
"I think the production by Iran of nuclear weapons is unacceptable. We must organize an international effort to prevent this to happen," Obama said at his first press conference since his election Tuesday. "Iran supports terrorist organizations. I think that is something that must stop," he added.
Mr. Obama also confirmed he had received a letter from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after his victory. "I will study the letter of President Ahmadinejad and I will respond appropriately," he assured.
"We are convinced that Iran continues to act to get nuclear weapons and continues to deceive the world by conducting negotiations on arms control this," said for its part, Israeli Minister of Defense, Ehud Barak , Quoted on the website of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
Thursday, the head of the Kadima party (center) and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, warned the newly elected President of the United States, Barack Obama, against any attempt to engage in direct dialogue with the Iran, because a dialogue at this stage could be interpreted as a sign of weakness.
John Bolton, former under-secretary of state and researcher at the American Enterprise Institute, believes that the United States could try to change the political regime in Iran to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue. This strategy would enable them to "escape" from the official position of Moscow on the issue.
Replying to the question whether Washington was capable of resolving the nuclear issue (and oil?) Iran without going to Russia, former diplomat replied in the affirmative, adding that the United States could launch approaches focused on changing the regime in Iran. " "We may even use armed force to achieve," he said Friday on radio Echo of Moscow.
Mr. Bolton had incorrectly described the current position of the U.S. State Department on this issue. "I do not think that Iran abandon its nuclear program with good grace. It is also unlikely that this conflict can be resolved diplomatically. I believe that diplomatic initiatives are not likely to influence the position of Tehran, "he stressed.
In Iran, the horizon is far from good, for Ahmadinejad. Recall that the Guardian Council and the Ministry of Interior have set for June 12 in 2009 when the next presidential election in Iran .... it obviously has its importance ...
Some 60 Iranian economists have indeed once again addressed an open letter to the Iranian president to denounce the "heavy toll in the country because of the negative consequences of government policy", reported Saturday the semi-official agency Irna.
"In the past, economists presented their analysis and their critics, including (...) how to spend oil revenues, but government officials have ignored," wrote economists and major universities in Tehran and provincial .
Economists have already written several open letters to the president for warning against the negative consequences of its economic policy, and particularly "the indiscriminate injection of oil revenues in the economy."
Economists say that the next government on international issues and domestic is unscientific. " They denounce pell-mell "extremist idealism", "haste in action" or "no assessment of the cost of economic programs."
They also harshly denounced "the wrong policy and political tension with the rest of the world that has deprived Iran of opportunities for trade and foreign investment, imposing heavy costs to the economy."
According to the letter, "the sanctions imposed by the United Nations" on the controversial nuclear program has caused billions of dollars in additional costs for international trade.
The signatories of the letter accuse the government for squandering oil revenues. They also accuse him of resorting to massive imports to try to control inflation, which reached 30% in the past 12 months.
The signatories of the letter warned against the consequences of the global economic crisis and declining oil revenues to "impose heavy costs in the country." A few days ago, the vice-president of the central bank, Ramin Pachaifam, warned that if the price of oil remained at less than $ 60, Iran would deal with "big problems" economic.
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