"I was the only one against the JCPOA." Netanyahu "managed to destroy the JCPOA. What is the problem? The problem is we decided not to fold. That is our only crime. We had a revolution against a government that was supported by the United States, imposed on our country by the United States, [that] tortured our people with the help of the United States, and never received a single human rights condemnation, and now people are worried why they say 'Death to America'? We say death to these policies, because they have brought nothing but this farce. What did they bring to us? If somebody came to the United States, removed your president, imposed a dictator who killed your people, wouldn't you say death to that country?"
Zarif inevitably had to evoke Mike Pompeo: "Today the secretary of state of the United States says publicly: 'If Iran wants to eat, it has to obey the United States.' This is a war crime. Starvation is a crime against humanity. It's a newspeak headline. If Iran wants its people to eat, it has to follow what he said. He says, 'Death to the entire Iranian people.'"
By then the atmosphere across the huge round table was electric. One could hear a pin drop or, rather, the mini sonic booms coming from high up in the shallow dome via the system devised by star architect Norman Foster, heating the high-performance glass to melt the snow.
Zarif went all in: "What did we do to the United States? What did we do to Israel? Did we make their people starve? Who is making our people starve? Just tell me. Who is violating the nuclear agreement? Because they did not like Obama? Is that a reason to destroy the world, just because you don't like a president?"
Iran's only crime, he said, "is that we decided to be our own boss. And that crime we are proud of it. And we will continue to be. Because we have seven millennia of civilization. We had an empire that ruled the world, and the life of that empire was probably seven times the entire life of the United States. So with all due respect to the United States empire; I owe my education to the United States we don't believe that the United States is an empire that will last. The age of empires is long gone. The age of hegemony is long gone. We now have to live in a world without hegemony regional hegemony or global hegemony."
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