The recent Washington Post report that suggested U.S. officials are considering opening an interests office in Tehran shows that the United States has been unable to implement its hostile policies toward Iran and has now begun a new method of a media propaganda.

Countries usually establish relations through diplomatic channels or with the assistance of a third country, and the process is almost always concealed from the media. However, the U.S. is actually just testing the water with this move.
Iran-U.S. relations, which have been officially suspended for almost three decades, are very complicated and can not simply be resumed with the publication of a report in a newspaper and a bit of media publicity.
Washington’s recent threats against the Islamic Republic and the rise in anti-Iran statements by U.S. officials have created obstacles for the efforts to start serious negotiations between the two countries to resolve their disputes.
The U.S. imposed a terrible war on Iran through former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, the USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, billions of dollars of Iranian assets are still frozen in the United States, Washington supports the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization, the U.S. Navy attacked Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf, and the United States has put pressure on the UN Security Council to issue resolutions against the Islamic Republic and impose economic sanctions on Iran.
These are crimes that Iranians will never forget.
The United States, which considers itself Britain’s replacement as the foreign hegemon dominating Middle Eastern oil reserves, was an accomplice in the Pahlavi regime’s crimes against Iran.
The U.S. also orchestrated the August 1953 coup against former prime minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, helped the former shah establish the dreaded SAVAK secret police, which tortured and killed thousands of young freedom fighters, and committed other acts of foul play against Iran.
Those events are still bitter memories for Iranians, and complex political and cultural strategies must be implemented to at least partially alleviate their destructive effects.
Over the past three decades, the U.S. has done nothing in the international or regional arena indicating that it has any inclination to enlist Iran in efforts to resolve regional crises.
Washington’s hegemonistic policy toward Middle Eastern countries and its all-out support for the Zionist regime’s crimes against Palestine and Lebanon make it impossible to talk about establishing relations with the United States at this point in time.
The Islamic world’s animosity toward U.S. policies, which has grown during George W. Bush’s presidency, has cast a shadow between the East and the West. In such an atmosphere, any independent country that seeks to get closer to the U.S. will become politically isolated.
Thus, the Washington Post’s recent report is only a droll media joke that is part of yet another propaganda campaign meant to turn public opinion against Iran.
Surely, if Iran is indisposed to opening a U.S. interests office in Tehran, the United States will ratchet up its propaganda campaign and claim that the Islamic Republic is not interested in establishing political relations with other countries.
The Iranian people’s vigilance and their total understanding of the hostile nature of U.S. policy toward the country will certainly foil the new conspiracy, because even if the United States officially apologizes for everything it has done to the nation, Iran will not be fooled by its new tricks