Obama UN speech contradictory: Analyst
“President Obama talks, on the one hand, about wanting to improve relations between the United States and Iran but in the same speech he says the United States will use all of its resources including military force to protect what he calls vital national interest in the Middle East,” Richard Becker of the antiwar group ANSWER Coalition told Press TV on Wednesday.
“You have, on the one hand, some rhetoric that sounds vaguely for an improvement of relations and you have other statements that are clearly imperialistic,” he added.
Becker noted that, “the history of the United States' relations with Iran and the United States' policy towards Iran also have created great doubts in the minds of people who are hoping for a change in the situation.”
Becker cited the CIA’s role in the 1953 coup against the government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosadeq, the installation and protection of the Shah and supporting former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the war against Iran as examples of Washington’s belligerent policy towards Tehran.
President Obama said Tuesday that he will use the remainder of his term to pursue better relations with Iran.