Re: Poor "Jim Pennino" :-)

On 4/19/25 2:37 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:

On 4/19/25 1:59 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:

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An Iranian more independent and self-centered news outlet (in Telegram) which does not necessarily obey any demands on them by Iran's government, early on, towards the beginning of the talk disclosed that Araghchi and his team had cancelled the talk minutes into its start, and for about 15 minutes or so were preparing to leave the building (Ommani embassy in Italy) and return to Iran.
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This news piece was not touched on at the end of the 2nd rounds talks by spokesperson of foreign ministry. No other Iranian sources of news also touched on that, either because they didn't have the information, or they followed ministry's directive in keeping it quiet. No news of it in Western outlets that I could see either.
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  In this round of talk, no reporters were allowed in the building. Even spokesperson himself wasn't allowed to be there. And I don't think anyone among Iran's team texted this out directly to that news agency. It'd be absurd to do that. Much more likely, Araghchi himself called up other Iran's authorities to ask for permission to abort, and it was granted. Then some Iranians in the government itself immediately leaked it to that news agency against the wishes of the government.
 There's a second route also. Perhaps some Mossad agent among Americans' team texted it out to Mossad, and Iran's spies among Mossad (plenty of them!) texted it to that news agency and perhaps scores of other ones as well, then only the most independent one disclosed it in Telegram. I think these two are the only routes that the news could take to come out.
 I saw the news piece just minutes after the attempt to abort took place! I.e. during those minutes that mission was aborted. This is a bit too fast to be normal reaction on either side. I think there's more to it than it seems.
 How it was handled _after_ 2nd round was over, was of course just correct diplomatic behavior preserving both sides' face. Such nitty gritties are washed and cleaned off before news to media is given. But the fact that somebody, some side, wanted very badly and quickly for it to come out, is the strange and interesting part of it :)
 Could be that somebody will explain this in the news for a wider audience. We'll see.
 

On the official Iranian news channel whose reporter woman was in Rome broadcasting live from outside the place of meeting, the only clue that could point to this event is that she said (live cast) spokesperson was called inside and despite arrangements made between them to relay the news to the woman reporter, she was saying he had gone silent for the past few minutes and is not responding to our queries. Then she herself concluded that "talks may have started to cover very serious matters, taking all spokesman's attention." :) This is the only sign that you could see in Iran's official news.
Anyway, this thing isn't deserving all this attention and I'm already sick of it. As far as my own view is concerned, as I've said it multiple times, it doesn't matter how this talk "goes forward" or even is kept going or not. This whole thing to contact and create a dialogue with the Americans is inconsequential to Iran because regardless of the outcome, Iran must and would do exactly what she should, with or without a talk. There aren't "choices" there for Iran to think and choose from when Nazis are pressuring her.
In fact this is also the stance of Pezeshkiyan and Iran's Leader himself. Both of them have pointed out that this matter of "negotiation" is one among tens of other tasks that foreign ministry is involved in and does not absorb any more attention than that, and some people's tying the events or their decisions and plans to it is ridiculous.
Talking with Americans is not consequential for Iran, and therefore, it is not consequential _to_ Iran. End of this crap story.
Talking with Russia is, and talking with China is, and similarly developing ties with central Asians and Arabs and Indians and central and south Americans ARE consequential for (and to) Iran.
USA and its cohorts and to tell you the truth the whole fucking cro-magnon people is a thing of the past for Iran. It was over decades ago.
Here let me one more time quote Raisi on that:
    "They are the past; we are the future. I repeat, they are the past, and we are the future."
                    - Raisi in delivering his speech in UN