Unsurprisingly, President Rouhanis phone call with Barack Obama the first high-level contact between US and Iranian leaders since 1979 has aroused much excitement and comment in the Islamic Republic.Most of the reaction has been favorable, including the support of more than 200 of Irans 290 MPs in a motion praising Rouhani, but there has also been grumbling. Hard-line publications such as Keyhan and Raja News scolded the President.
More importantly, so did the head of the Revolutionary Guards, Mohammad Ali Jafari, He should have turned down a phone conversation until after the American government has shown its sincerity.
On Monday, the Supreme Leaders office made a notable intervention. The outcome: Rouhani 1, Guards 0.
Ayatollah Khameneis senior advisor Ali Akbar Nategh Nouri, without naming the Guards,said:
Some of those who criticizeddo not pay attention to the point that the trip to New York was primarily to untie the knot of the problems of the people and the system.
In the matter of the telephone conversation between the two Presidents, the Revolutions value, fundamentals and basics were also not violated or trampled. In any case, they [the US] requested this meeting. Why dont those who oppose it point out that during the trip the American Presidents numerous requests to meet with Iran were denied by Iran, and that the media wrote that this matter humiliated Obama?
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