[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] President Rowhani's attendance of the 70th General Assembly was supposed to be a turning point in Iran's relations with the global powers and their foreign policies. It did not turn out as expected.All hopes at this assembly of forming a coalition against ISIS, solving the refugee crisis and finding a solution Syria's five years of war turned to ashes as Russian President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
and Rowhani refused the idea of Assad's removal from power.
"We should finally acknowledge that no one but President Assad and his forces are truly fighting ISIS in Syria," Putin said told the General Assembly on Monday.
If this is what Iran and Russia are sticking to, than I believe the future does not seem bright for international peace talks on Syria.
Only a week ago, many were predicting that President B.O. and Rowhani would have an encounter at the U.N. to put decades of dispute behind them, but Iranians showed zero interest in this -- an indication as the sign that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei hasn't approved such a move yet.
And Obama did not forget to respond to Rowhani, whom in an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes" earlier this month said: "Iranian 'Death to America' chants are aimed at U.S. policies, not the American people."
At the U.N., Obama fired back: "Chanting "death to America" doesn't create jobs or make Iran more secure." Now, he knows a thing or two about that!