Would you trust this man?

In Geneva, America and her allies are limbering up for another round of negotiations over Iran’s nuclear project. In a sign of the thaw Barack Obama and our own Prime Minister seem desperate to declare, David Cameron has spoken directly with President Rouhani for the first time. According to a Downing Street spokesman, the two men ‘agreed to continue efforts to improve the relationship’.

Meantime, ahead of the Geneva talks, the man with the power in Iran, the Supreme Leader, has just given a speech to 50,000 Baseejis (government militia).  Here is some of what he said:

‘Is the Islamic regime after war with others? This is the statement that is heard from the mouth of the region’s dog with rabies, i.e. the Zionist regime, that ‘Iran is a threat to the world’. The ones that threaten the world are those who have brought nothing but evil for the world, like this very illegitimate Zionist regime.’

‘Wherever there is a stage for the test of strengths, we should stand up to the enemy. Your will must overcome the will of the enemy. Your resolve must overcome their resolve. In the battlefield of Jihad, any turning back and running away from the enemy is forbidden in Islam and in the Koran.’

‘Heroic flexibility is an artful manoeuvre to achieve the final goal.’

‘Any forward and backward move in the battlefield must be in line with the previously decided objectives.’

‘The animosities of the Islamic rule are directed towards the world arrogance. The world arrogance thinks crimes against nations [are] permissible. Today, the state of America is at the head of all global arrogance.’

I do hope our own Prime Minister knows what he is doing.

[Translation by Potkin Azarmehr]