THE
REACTIONS TOWARD THE ANNAPOLIS CONFERENCE
Iran reacts
to the fact that it was not invited to the Middle East peace
conference held in the city of Annapolis in the USA in
November 26, 2007.
On the
Iranian state owned televisions, in the news and the
comments about the Annapolis Conference, it is stated that
“the demands of Israel are endeavored to be accepted by
force to the Palestinian people and the Islamic countries
attended to the Conference, Mahmud Abbas the representative
of Palestine in the Conference does not present the whole
Palestinian people, and various protest demonstrations
against this Conference in various countries and in the
Gazza Strip staged.
The
representative of the Religious Leader in the province of
East Azerbaijan and Friday Imam of Tabriz Ayatollah Muhsen
Mujtshed Shabesteri, in his statement given on November 30
during his Friday sermon said that “attending this
Conference would be deemed as a disloyalty to Palestinian
cause and the Palestinian people, the USA and the Zionist
powers try to make an arrangement in favor of Israel in the
Middle East, and some Muslim countries are being the
instruments of this game.”
Annapolis
dangerously reminds of the Second Camp David Conference held
in 2000. Since, Clinton, whose term of office was about to
end at that time, hurriedly dragged the Arabs and the
Israelis into a process of discussion, to which they were
not ready and they could not put into practice. Time would
show if the Annapolis process would render success or not.
However, the experts believe that with such kind of a
political maneuver, the USA left Iran out of the Palestinian
issue and endeavored to isolate Iran among the Arabian
countries. The real examination would commence when the
tough bargains on the main issues such as “refugees,
settlements, Jerusalem, borders and security” begin to be
discussed.
