I had heard a report of this diplomatic dispatch that was sent to the Bush Administration by the Iranians about six months ago. However, as the way things stand in the current state of American intellectual public discourse, I did not even attempt to disseminate the report I had encountered to a wider audience. All too often, accurate contents pertaining to incidents, which need to be incorporated into the compilation of accurate information culminating into what will become the socially legitimated journalistic narrative that will come to define our collective representations of reality – are simply ignored or cynically discounted. I suspect that this filtering of factual reports from the permitted descriptions circulated through the modes of communication in our society takes place because corporate journalism deems the revelations too provocative and, therefore, deviating from the mundane and lacking in knee-jerk plausibility. Corporate journalism, consequently, discards with the stories as a matter of course, since its inclusion in the contents of mass-produced journalism might incite a backlash from social elements which would have their credibility damaged if the general public was to subscribe to the validity of the report’s contents. Consequently, these types of illuminating accounts are redacted during their processing in the distillations, constituting the gate-keeping devices belonging to the industrial-mass-journalism-complexes.
R Cole
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Quote of the Day:“How do wars start? Diplomats lie to reporters and then believe what they read in the newspapers.”
- Karl Krauss
Subject: Iranian offer of a comprehensive settlement with the United States
In May 2003 the Iranian goverment faxed the United States government a proposal to discuss a comprehensive settlement. Prompt action on this offer could have brought peace between our two countries, and done much to stablize the entire region.
How did our government react? It snubbed the offer.
To learn more about this, and other opportunities for negotiated settlements, we recomend that you buy the current issue of “Esquire” magazine (November 2007, with Charlize Theron on the cover). Read the article “Briefing: Our Impending War with Iran” by John H. Richardson.
We have appended the text of the Iranian fax below my signature (minus diplomatic minutia about how to proceed with the discussions). There are many good things on the list of Iranian offers. There are also questionable things. The list is a starting point for negotiations, and like all negotiations, not everything on the list would be part of the final settlement.
It is important that we all be aware of what Iran offered, and of the opportunity our elected leaders threw away in a fit of moral posturing (or perhaps because they actually prefer war to peace).
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Text of Iranian offer for a comprehensive settlement, May 2003:
Iranian Aims: The U.S. accepts a dialogue “in mutual respect” and agrees that Iran puts the following aims on the agenda:Halt in US hostile behavior and rectification of status of Iran in the US: interference in internal or external relations, “axis of evil,” terrorism list
Abolishment of all sanctions: commercial sanctions, frozen assets, judgments (FSIA), impediments in international trade and financial institutions
Iraq: democratic and fully representative government in Iraq, support of Iranian claims for Iraqi reparations, respect for Iranian national interests in Iraq and religious links to Najaf/Karbal
Full access to peaceful technology, biotechnology, and chemical technology.
Recognition of Iran’s legitimate security interests in the region with according defense capacity.
Terrorism: pursuit of anti-Iranian terrorists, above all MKO (People’s Mujahedin of Iran) and support for repatriation of their members in Iraq, decisive action against anti-Iranian terrorists, above all MKO and affiliated organizations in the US
US Aims: Iran accepts a dialogue “in mutual respect” and agrees that the US puts the following aims on the agenda.
WMD: full transparency for security that there are no Iranian endeavors to develop or possess WMD, full cooperation with IAEA based on Iranian adoption of all relevant instruments (93+2) and all further IAEA protocols
Terrorism: decisive action against any terrorists (above all Al Qaida) on Iranian territory, full cooperation and exchange of all relevant information.
Iraq: coordination of Iranian influence for activity supporting stabilization and the establishment of democratic institutions and a non-religious government.
Middle East: 1) Stop any material support to Palestinian opposition groups (Hamas, Islamic Jihad, etc.) from Iranian territory, pressure on these organizations to stop violent action against civilians within borders of 1967. 2) Action on Hezbollah to become a mere political organization within Lebanon 3) Acceptance of the Arab League Beirut declaration (Saudi initiative, two-state approach)
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