prep for dinner, israel pres briefing /
[{"sender": "Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]", "recipients": ["Larry Summers"], "timestamp": "2/11/2013 5:45:09 PM", "subject": "prep for dinner, israel pres briefing /", "body": "The Wall Street Journal\n\nThe Ayatollah Always Says No\n\nEditorial\n\nFebruary 8, 2013 -The Farsi word for \"no\" is na h, which is easy enough\nto remember. Maybe even Joe Biden won't forget it the next time the U.S.\ntries to reach out diplomatically to Iran.\n\nWe're speaking of the Administration's latest effort to come to terms with\nTehran over its nuclear programs, which Mr. Biden made last weekend at\nthe Munich Security Conference. The U.S. offer of direct bilateral talks,\nhe said, \"stands, but it must be real and tangible.\" Iranian foreign minister\nAli Akbar Salehi, who was also at the conference though he refused to\nmeet with U.S. officials, called Mr. Biden's comments \"a step forward.\"\n\nMr. Salehi's remark set the usual hearts aflutter that Iran is finally serious\nabout a deal. But the optimism was brief. On Thursday, Iran's Supreme\nLeader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei flatly rejected direct talks with the U.S.\n\"The U.S. is pointing a gun at Iran and wants us to talk to them,\" he said.\n\"Direct talks will not solve any problems.\"\n\nThis isn't the first time Mr. Khamenei has played chaste Daphne to\nPresident Obama's infatuated Apollo. Just after becoming President in\n2009, Mr. Obama sent the Ayatollah two private letters and delivered a\nconciliatory speech for the Persian new year of Nowruz. Mr. Khamenei's\nanswer: \"They chant the slogan of change but no change is seen in\npractice.\" He told a crowd chanting \"death to America\" that \"if a hand is\nstretched covered with a velvet glove but it is cast iron inside, that makes\nno sense.\"\n\nThat was in March 2009. In October of that year the U.S. and its allies\ntentatively worked out a deal with Iranian negotiators to move some of"}]