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Financial Times: Obama to Seek Negotiations with Iran in 2013
17:27 | 2013-01-01
TEHRAN (FNA)- Financial Times predicted that US President Barack Obama
will be seeking face-to-face talks with Iran in the new Christian
year, and also cautioned that 2013 could be the year of the big
bust-up between the US and Israel.
Ahead of the New Year, FT's experts made predictions about many issues
for 2013. Here is part of the predictions.
Asked if Obama would start a war with Iran in 2013, Philip Stephens
said, "No. To borrow the Churchillian metaphor, the US president
intends to try jaw-jaw ahead of war-war. Obama will seek direct
bilateral negotiations with Iran. There is no guarantee that (Iran's
Supreme Leader) Ayatollah Khamenei will agree.
"For its part, the US now seems ready for talks that go well beyond
Iran's nuclear ambitions to issues such as a US security guarantee.
Benjamin Netanyahu will try to pull Obama in the other direction by
urging an early US attack on Iran's nuclear installations. But after
the Israeli prime minister's support for Mitt Romney in the
presidential race and his plan for more Israeli settlements in the
West Bank, the White House is in no mood to listen; 2013 could be the
year of the big bust-up between the US and Israel."
Elsewhere, another expert, Edward Luce responded to the question if
the US would return to pre-crisis GDP trend growth of 3 per cent in
2013, and said, "No - growth won't exceed 2 per cent. Continued
Washington wrangling over America's fiscal future, weak demand for US
exports, and a relatively slow recovery in the US housing market will
make for another disappointing year of recovery - the fourth in a row.
Relative to Europe, the US will continue to be a bright spot. Relative
to its own expectations, the US will underperform."
Gideon Rachman spoke of the possibility of a US military intervention
in Syria, saying that the West will seek to initially intervene to
provide weapons to selected rebel groups. A severe escalation in
fighting might well lead to the imposition of a no-fly zone, using
western air power. If Assad falls, the aftermath could be chaotic and
bloody.
Also, David Pilling responded to a question about the possibility of a
war between Japan and China in 2013, and said such a war would be
unlikely.
"But do expect trouble. Resentment over competing claims to the
Japanese-controlled Senkaku islands, known as Diaoyu by Beijing, is
extremely deep," he added.
From: A. Papazian
17:27 | 2013-01-01
TEHRAN (FNA)- Financial Times predicted that US President Barack Obama
will be seeking face-to-face talks with Iran in the new Christian
year, and also cautioned that 2013 could be the year of the big
bust-up between the US and Israel.
Ahead of the New Year, FT's experts made predictions about many issues
for 2013. Here is part of the predictions.
Asked if Obama would start a war with Iran in 2013, Philip Stephens
said, "No. To borrow the Churchillian metaphor, the US president
intends to try jaw-jaw ahead of war-war. Obama will seek direct
bilateral negotiations with Iran. There is no guarantee that (Iran's
Supreme Leader) Ayatollah Khamenei will agree.
"For its part, the US now seems ready for talks that go well beyond
Iran's nuclear ambitions to issues such as a US security guarantee.
Benjamin Netanyahu will try to pull Obama in the other direction by
urging an early US attack on Iran's nuclear installations. But after
the Israeli prime minister's support for Mitt Romney in the
presidential race and his plan for more Israeli settlements in the
West Bank, the White House is in no mood to listen; 2013 could be the
year of the big bust-up between the US and Israel."
Elsewhere, another expert, Edward Luce responded to the question if
the US would return to pre-crisis GDP trend growth of 3 per cent in
2013, and said, "No - growth won't exceed 2 per cent. Continued
Washington wrangling over America's fiscal future, weak demand for US
exports, and a relatively slow recovery in the US housing market will
make for another disappointing year of recovery - the fourth in a row.
Relative to Europe, the US will continue to be a bright spot. Relative
to its own expectations, the US will underperform."
Gideon Rachman spoke of the possibility of a US military intervention
in Syria, saying that the West will seek to initially intervene to
provide weapons to selected rebel groups. A severe escalation in
fighting might well lead to the imposition of a no-fly zone, using
western air power. If Assad falls, the aftermath could be chaotic and
bloody.
Also, David Pilling responded to a question about the possibility of a
war between Japan and China in 2013, and said such a war would be
unlikely.
"But do expect trouble. Resentment over competing claims to the
Japanese-controlled Senkaku islands, known as Diaoyu by Beijing, is
extremely deep," he added.
From: A. Papazian