The Iranian Negotiating Team Knows that America is Our Number One Enemy

Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Mohammadi Kermani, the interim Friday Prayer leader of Tehran, said on Friday: "The Iranian negotiating team is awake and knows that America is our number one enemy and is trying to harm our dignity." He added, "The entire request of our people and leadership from the Iranian team is to be careful that Iran's dignity is not harmed." The Friday Prayer leader of Tehran stated: "The Iranian team should be aware that America's plan is to strike Iran with various programs and tricks, but it certainly will not succeed and will definitely fall day by day." The first round of comprehensive nuclear talks between Iran and the 1+5 group ended on Wednesday, December 17, in Geneva, during a seven-month extension of negotiations, and the continuation of these talks has been postponed to mid-January, about a month later. Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, on Thursday during his year-end press conference, referred to the "great flexibility" of the Islamic Republic in nuclear negotiations and described the agreement with Tehran on the nuclear issue as "very close." Iranian and American officials also expressed hope that the nuclear negotiations would yield results in the coming months. Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, announced on December 16 that Iran, during the seven-month negotiation period with the 1+5 group and following the "previous agreement," accepted "more" inspections of its nuclear facilities, a halt to the 20% uranium enrichment, and a "delay" in the launch of new centrifuges. The Associated Press reported on December 4 that members of the Obama administration had told several congressional representatives that the U.S. had obtained significant concessions from Iran, including the Islamic Republic's commitment to more inspections of nuclear facilities and neutralizing larger amounts of Iran's uranium resources. Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Mohammadi Kermani addressed those he called the internal "sedition" leaders, saying they have wronged the people, the country, and the leader of the Islamic Republic. Ayatollah Mohammadi Kermani said that if they confessed to their oppression, the people are noble and the leader of the Islamic Republic is "the master" and will accept their apology. Mr. Mohammadi Kermani also told these individuals that if they had objections, there was a legal way, but they did not take that path. The leader of the Islamic Republic and his close associates refer to Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi as the leaders of the sedition, and the protests against the results of the 2009 presidential election as sedition. Mir Hossein Mousavi, Zahra Rahnavard, and Mehdi Karroubi have been under house arrest since February 2011. Previously, close associates of the leader of the Islamic Republic have repeatedly called for the "repentance" of the leaders of the 2009 presidential election protesters, but the children of Mr. Mousavi and Karroubi have stated that they still insist on their previous positions. Mohammad Taqi Karroubi, the son of Mehdi Karroubi, emphasized in a conversation with Radio Farda in March 2014 that his father "does not believe in repenting before earthly gods." According to the daughters of Mir Hossein Mousavi, he has also said regarding the request for "repentance": "They know that when I reach a conclusion that white is white, they cannot force me under pressure to say that black is black." Ali Motahari, a representative from Tehran in the parliament, said on December 15, "When we do not allow them to speak, how can they come to repent?" In this context, Lavrov: Achieving a nuclear agreement with Iran is possible. Zarif: Good steps have been taken to reach a nuclear agreement. Changing the game for "proxy wars"; war against the people in the streets of Iran. The first paragraph; the responsibility of the opponents and the possibility of radicalizing Iranian society. The death of the last Mossad representative in Tehran amidst the Iranian crisis. Two weeks after a complete blackout, the time to reconnect the internet in Iran is still "uncertain." The shadow of war over Tehran; "Trump is looking for decisive military options against Iran." Trump says if the Islamic Republic carries out an assassination against him, it will be "erased from the earth." A senior American official: The Trump administration is closely monitoring the case of Reza Valizadeh. The Islamic Republic announced the number of casualties from the protests in December as "three thousand and 117 people."