WarSclerotic

Iranian commander says collapse of US empire is near, Jerusalem Post, Ariel Ben Solomon, May 29, 2014

(Many who watched President Obama’s foreign policy “reset” address at West Point on Wednesday appear also to consider that America’s foreign policy has reached a low point, albeit for different reasons. See, e.g., Obama’s Fantasy World:

America in decline has been the operating premise of the Obama administration from Day One; “leading from behind” is is how they have sought to manage that decline. But the president, having been hammered for being both weak and inept, is now personally leading a PR campaign to twist things around. He wants you to believe that leading from behind is really leading from ahead. And if you are Barack Obama, post-modernist, facts are subordinated to “narrative.”

See also How did the world react to Obama’s outline of the US global role? — DM)

Iran’s Foreign Minister slams Israel’s attempts to set red lines on the country’s nuclear program.

The commander also said, according to the report, that Iran continued to gain military and economic power, warning the country’s enemies that their plots against it would fail.

“Any enemy formula will entail an unexpected ending for him and this is due to the Iranian nation’s reliance on religious and Islamic beliefs,” added Salami.

Hossein Salami, deputy head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. Photo: REUTERS

Deputy Commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Brig.-Gen. Hossein Salami, said that the US status in the world has deteriorated and that its collapse is near.

“Today nowhere in the Muslim world” does anyone pull out “a red carpet for American officials and that’s why [US President Barack] Obama secretly” showed up at Bagram military base in Afghanistan without first letting President Hamid Karzai know, said Salami, according to a report by Iran’s Fars News Agency.

“And this shows that the US Empire in the world is coming to an end,” he said.

Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Sunday and spoke to the Afghan president, but did not meet with him.

The Afghan president rejected an invitation extended through the US embassy to meet Obama at Bagram.

“President Karzai said he would warmly welcome him if he comes to the palace but in no way he would go (to) Bagram to meet him,” Abdul Karim Khurram, Karzai’s chief of staff, told Reuters.

A US official said the White House was not surprised that the proposed visit did not work on short notice.

The commander also said, according to the report, that Iran continued to gain military and economic power, warning the country’s enemies that their plots against it would fail.

“Any enemy formula will entail an unexpected ending for him and this is due to the Iranian nation’s reliance on religious and Islamic beliefs,” added Salami.

Meanwhile, Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, slammed Israel’s attempts to set red lines on the country’s nuclear program at a ministerial conference of the Non-Aligned Movement in Algeria on Wednesday.

“Is this not insolence towards the international law and the Non-Proliferation Treaty that (Israel) a non-member of NPT, which has massive nuclear arsenals and poses major existential threats to the entire Middle East region, sets redlines on Iran’s peaceful nuclear program?” said Zarif, Iran’s Tasnim News Agency reported.

He added that attempts to paint Iran as a threat to the region and the world have repeatedly turned out to be “total lies” and that the country is opposed to nuclear weapons.

Separately, Iranian and Russian officials met in Tehran on Wednesday in order to expand trade cooperation, Fars reported.

Russian ambassador to Iran, Levan Djagaryan, met the head of Iran’s Customs Administration, Massoud Karbasiyan.

“Iran and Russia are going to sign a new document on customs cooperation,” said Karbasiyan.

For his part, the Russian ambassador called for improved bilateral trade.

Current trade is worth around $5 billion a year, according to media reports.

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