Ein wichtiger Grund dafür, daß Obama um eine Intervention in Syrien herummanövriert, liegt am aktiv begonnen Tauwetter mit Iran seit der Wahl Rouhanis. Iran ist letztlich wichtiger:
http://www.theguardian.com/wor…r-khamenei-hassan-rouhani
"... Khamenei was speaking a few days after it emerged that the US president, Barack Obama, had exchanged letters with Rouhani raising chances of a historic meeting between the two men at the UN general assembly next week and possible high-level meetings between Tehran and Washington in future.
Iran's foreign ministry spokeswoman, Marzieh Afkham, confirmed on Tuesday that letters had been exchanged, saying Obama had written to Rouhani congratulating him on his election victory, and Rouhani had responded.
Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a former Iranian nuclear official who worked as Rouhani's deputy in Iran's supreme national security council from 1997 to 2005, wrote in an article last week that Khamenei has given consent for direct talks with the Obama administration.
"Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has issued permission for President Hassan Rouhani's new administration to enter into direct talks with the US," he wrote in the Japan Times. "No better opportunity to end decades of bilateral hostility is likely to come along."
Khamenei told the guards, who are accused by the west of largely supporting Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria both militarily and financially, that they should stay away from politics. "It is not necessary for the guards to have activities in the political field," he said, echoing Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini, the late founder of the Islamic republic, who banned the elite forces from involvement in politics after the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Despite this, the guards have been extensively involved in Iranian politics recently, especially under the eight-year rule of the former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinajd, during which time they expanded their political and financial operations.
Khamenei's words echoed those of Rouhani on Monday, when he asked the guards to "stay above and beyond political currents", and warned them against competing with the will of the people.
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