Obama's "Rapproachment" Speech to Iran is a Cleverly Veiled Threat

It's amazing how my fellow Iranians have been swept away by fluttery emotion after listening to Obama's New Year "greeting" to the Iranian people and government. To me, this speech was a very clever threat, disguised in a "holier than thou" package.

Basically, the speech is a sticks and carrots strategy - "if you do what we say, we will work with you" - "if you do not bend to our will, we will label you and outcast you... so you better do what we say!" It was designed to give the American administration an upper hand in the future, a pretext for casting the Iranian government as "non-cooperative" and "unworthy of membership" in the so-called "world community" should the Iranian government not step "in line".

Deception and manipulation, veiled with beautiful sounding words. How seemingly kind and "different" the tone from the previous administration. No doubt, Obama is much more eloquent, much more charismatic, much more intelligent, than Bush (not that either of them necessarily have the final say on their speeches).

But how can Obama call for peaceful commerce, when he has renewed the economic warfare (sanctions) on the Iranian people for another full year?

Also, what is this hypocrisy about "supporting terrorism", when it is his American predecessor who has attacked two sovereign nations in the past decade, completely unprovoked, using lies to sway public opinion, and caused the death of hundreds of thousands of people (including Americans), and the demolition of two countries?

Talk is cheap. And in this case, Obama is mortgaging his own talk, by FIRST renewing the sanctions, and then asking for trade ("if you do what we say").

I am sure that the Iranian people will not linger too long in the mass hypnosis that has befallen them. Soon, they will be looking for real action to back up the words. One positive trait about the Iranian people is that history has taught them not to trust authority. This mistrust in authority has taken the Iranians to the verge of cynicism, but that's a welcome trait of a people in a world where conmen and crooks take to office through the bait of sweet sounding words and the appearance of beneficence.