President Hassan Rouhani

US hawks give Iran hardliners ammunition against Rouhani

Photo: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani delivers a speech under portraits of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L) and Iran's founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (R), on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Islamic revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's death, at his mausoleum in a suburb of Tehran on 3 June, 2014 (AFP).
 

A proposed US law will complicate Rouhani’s job by forcing him to quash criticism at home instead of considering rapprochement abroad
 

PROVE WHAT YOU DON’T HAVE

PROVE WHAT YOU DON’T HAVE
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani pledged that Tehran would never develop nuclear weapons.
 
by Paul Balles
 
Prove that you don’t have what I believe you have! That was an exact demand made on Saddam Hussein.
He scoffed.  That brought “shock and awe”, and Saddam was hanged on the mother of all ropes.
Prove that you don’t have weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).