Report: Top Iran cleric slams Ahmadinejad's 'coarse' attacks on Israel

[bemildred]

A top Iranian cleric on Wednesday criticized Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his ongoing "coarse" verbal assaults against Israel, the AFP news agency reported.

"Does foreign policy mean expressing coarse slogans and grandstanding?" Hassan Rowhani, a former top nuclear negotiator who still holds influential posts, asked in a speech to a foreign policy conference in Tehran.

According to the report, Rowhani said Iran "needs to find an accommodating way to decrease the threats and assure the interests of the country." "If the international community thinks that a country wants to play troublemaker and eliminate others, it will not let the country do this and will confront it."

Rowhani headed the relatively moderate nuclear negotiating team that served under former president Mohammad Khatami before Ahmadinejad took power in 2005.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/958784.html

[TomClash]

1. Good

Maybe this helps to lessen the excuse for war.

[applegrove]

2. One voice in the wilderness. Good for him.

[Crunchy Frog]

3. Nice to see that there are some sensible people in Iran.

I hope that they'll get the upper hand there someday.

[bemildred]

4. That was my take. Always nice to see politicians that don't come across as loons. nt

[azurnoir]

6. Hopeing for more of the same

unfortunately the "loons" are the one that make for $ale$ in the media.

[LeftishBrit]

5. Agreed; hoping very much for the same!

For everyone's sake - Iranians especially; and everyone who is affected by Iranian policies As I've probably mentioned, I have friends from Iran; and it would mean a lot to them and their families if the situation there improved.