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US President Donald Trump, who has never made a secret of his hostility toward Iran, called recently for a grand regional strategy among Sunni nations to isolate the country.
But Tehran received that threat with surprising equanimity because, in practice, the Trump administration has shown a willingness to do business with the country, the New York Times wrote in an article on Sunday.
On the surface, it looked as if there was a lot of bad news recently for the Islamic Republic.
At the recent Arab-American summit meeting in Saudi Arabia, Trump was the guest of the Saudi king, Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud, a sworn enemy of Iran, and the countries signed a record-breaking $110 billion arms deal plus another $300 billion in other deals.
“Until the Iranian regime is willing to be a partner for peace,” Trump said at the meeting, “all nations of conscience must work together to isolate Iran, deny it funding for terrorism.”
In response to the arms deal, Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Saturday such purchases would lead to nothing.
“These fools think by spending money they can win the friendship of the enemies of Islam,” he said. “They are like dairy cows. They will be milked, and when they are out of milk, they will be slaughtered.”
Tough talk from both sides, but back in Iran, they are awaiting the delivery of a fleet of American-made Boeing airliners, the result of two deals worth $22 billion for the United States company. The most recent contract between the plane maker and the Iranian airline Iran Aseman was signed two months after Trump was sworn into office.
Hostility Aside, Trump Eyes Iran Trade
Then there is this:
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, advisor to Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani on international affairs, on Sunday sat down for talks with Khaled al-Qaddumi, the head of Hamas office in Iran. The meeting came against a backdrop of the adoption of a new “policy document” by the Palestinian resistance movement early this month, which still rejects the Israeli regime’s right to exist and backs an armed struggle against it, but agrees to a transitional Palestinian state within the borders of 1967, when Israel occupied Gaza, the West Bank and East Beit-ul-Moqaddas after a war with Arab states.
Backing for Hamas
It's just business. What did he say and what did he do.
But Tehran received that threat with surprising equanimity because, in practice, the Trump administration has shown a willingness to do business with the country, the New York Times wrote in an article on Sunday.
On the surface, it looked as if there was a lot of bad news recently for the Islamic Republic.
At the recent Arab-American summit meeting in Saudi Arabia, Trump was the guest of the Saudi king, Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud, a sworn enemy of Iran, and the countries signed a record-breaking $110 billion arms deal plus another $300 billion in other deals.
“Until the Iranian regime is willing to be a partner for peace,” Trump said at the meeting, “all nations of conscience must work together to isolate Iran, deny it funding for terrorism.”
In response to the arms deal, Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Saturday such purchases would lead to nothing.
“These fools think by spending money they can win the friendship of the enemies of Islam,” he said. “They are like dairy cows. They will be milked, and when they are out of milk, they will be slaughtered.”
Tough talk from both sides, but back in Iran, they are awaiting the delivery of a fleet of American-made Boeing airliners, the result of two deals worth $22 billion for the United States company. The most recent contract between the plane maker and the Iranian airline Iran Aseman was signed two months after Trump was sworn into office.
Hostility Aside, Trump Eyes Iran Trade
Then there is this:
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, advisor to Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani on international affairs, on Sunday sat down for talks with Khaled al-Qaddumi, the head of Hamas office in Iran. The meeting came against a backdrop of the adoption of a new “policy document” by the Palestinian resistance movement early this month, which still rejects the Israeli regime’s right to exist and backs an armed struggle against it, but agrees to a transitional Palestinian state within the borders of 1967, when Israel occupied Gaza, the West Bank and East Beit-ul-Moqaddas after a war with Arab states.
Backing for Hamas
It's just business. What did he say and what did he do.
