Galloway in MehrNews

faceless · admin Joined: 25 Apr 2006

Washington unwilling to hold direct talks with Iran: Galloway
TEHRAN, Dec. 4 (MNA) – Iran and the U.S. have held three rounds of talks in Baghdad to improve the security situation in Iraq. A fourth round of talks between the arch foes is also imminent. However, the U.S. has said Iran should first stop its uranium enrichment program as a precondition for direct nuclear talks. Iran, as a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, has the right to enrich uranium for civilian applications.

British MP George Galloway says there is no indication that the U.S. is willing to enter talks with Iran over its nuclear program. “There is no sign that there are going to be proper face-to-face negotiations, and I don't believe that there is a willingness by the United States to engage in them,” Galloway told the Mehr News Agency in an interview on November 26.

Galloway also says whoever takes the helm at the White House “will not be a friend of Iran". "Whoever the next U.S. president is, he or she will not be a friend of Iran. The language from the principal contenders is very hostile and Barrack Obama, who might have been a more reasonable president, is far behind in the polls. It's likely that Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic nomination - and a better friend of Israel's you could not find - and perhaps the presidency. So I'm afraid it's going to be the same old same old, as we say.”

The socialist-minded British lawmaker argues that one should not play down the influence of Christian extremists within the U.S. establishment. “…There's also a right-wing Christian zealotry among the U.S. leadership which should not be underestimated. …I believe the U.S. is trying to ratchet up the tension to provide an excuse for an attack (on Iran), the consequences of which would be horrendous for us all. It's bleak I am afraid.”

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I've not heard of mehrnews before, but in Scotland the word 'mehr' sounds like the pronunication of more - so it just sounds like 'morenews' in a Scottish accent...

major.tom · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:11 am Post subject:

Mehr means "more" in German...

faceless · admin Joined: 25 Apr 2006

how peculiar - I'd guess the only other thing Scots have in common with the Germans is a disregard for the Inglanders! Ach, wait I'm wrong...

major.tom · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:21 am Post subject:

Do you pronounce it like "mare"? (That's the German pronunciation.) I'd suspect (linguistically, at least) we have a lot more in common with Germans than we suspect.

eg. "Ask not for whom the bell tolls."

When you learn German, you learn precisely why we say "whom" instead of "who".

But I'm getting WAY off topic...

faceless · admin Joined: 25 Apr 2006

yeah, that's the sound, though it's written in Scots as 'mair'

off topic be damned! haha

major.tom · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:54 am Post subject:

I was going to type "mair" but since mare has the same pronunciation, opted for that.

"Mair" has a middle-English feel to me. Like the word "bairn." It makes me think of Chaucer (just when I thought I'd suppressed those memories for good).

Laughing

nico · Joined: 12 Dec 2006

Mehr is a classic Persian word which means kindness.