Iran Dismisses Obama

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Apparently the "we are the change we believe in" didn't work. By the way Omid Mir Sayafi was the Iranian blogger jailed for criticizing Khamenei. He allegedly committed "suicide" in an Iranian prison the day before Obama promised a new begining.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has dismissed overtures from U.S. President Barak Obama, saying Tehran doesn't see any change in American policy toward its government.....
Speaking to tens of thousands of people in the holy city of Mashhad, Khamenei asked how Obama could congratulate Iranians on the new year while the U.S. continues to accuse the country of supporting terrorism and seeking nuclear weapons.

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Saturday he sees no change in U.S. policy toward Iran despite the U.S. promise of a “new beginning.”

Khamenei said a change in rhetoric is not enough, and Washington must practice what it preaches, according to the English-language Press TV channel in Iran.

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Ahmadinejad said last month that Iran would welcome talks with the United States "in a fair atmosphere with mutual respect."

Khamenei also said world powers have come to realize they are not able to block Iran's nuclear progress. He looked back on the February 25 testing of Iran's first nuclear power plant, at Bushehr, as one of the "joyful developments" of the past year.

Last month, the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security released a report saying that Iran has reached "nuclear weapons breakout capability" -- it has enough uranium to make a nuclear bomb.