RNA – In an exclusive interview with Rasa News Agency, Mohsen Kouhkan, a member of the Velaei Faction in Iran’s Islamic Consultative Assembly, stated that before any negotiations are considered, we must take into consideration how much we can trust the opposite side and said, “Looking at the unfaithfulness and lack of adherence of the United States to its obligations, the negotiations will not find meaning and signification.”
Pointing out the unfaithfulness of United States and neglect of international law and unilateralism, the representative of the people of Lenjan in the Islamic Consultative Assembly said, “When the two sides are negotiating, they must be aware of the minimum guarantees for fulfilling their obligations after the negotiations. Thus, when there is no trust in one side of the negotiations, the negotiations will be meaningless.”
Kouhkan referred to the outcome of some countries who have compromised and said, “In the last few decades, we have witnessed many statements from people which led to a desire for compromise and then they explicitly confessed themselves by mistake. One of them was Yaser Arafat, who, during the last few days of his life, responded to a journalist who asked, ‘what was the biggest mistake you made in your political life?’ with ‘My biggest mistake was trusting the Americans.’”
The conservative politician and economist noted, “We also carefully consider the fate of [former Libyan leader] Muammar al-Qadhafi’s that the United States has no commitment to its obligations. al-Qadhafi trusted the United States to provide nuclear energy studies to his country, but the Americans didn’t fulfill any of their obligations.”
Referring to the fact that today, everyone acknowledges that the United States is dishonest in negotiations, he said, “Negotiating with the United States won’t only have no benefits for Iran, but rather it will also be a disadvantage.”
Kouhkan said that the adversaries of compromise with the United States suffered a major strategic mistake, one of the perceived harms by the representatives of these people was as follows, “When those who suffer from major strategic mistakes, they have a podium and microphone, their alarms and their voice will be louder than others.”
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