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September 30th, 2013 
Peter Nolan
Jafari said that Washington should respond to the good will shown by Rouhani
in New York by “lifting all sanctions against the Iranian nation, releasing
Iranian assets frozen in the United States, ending its hostility towards
Iran and accepting Iran’s nuclear programme.”
The commander of the Guards air wing General Amir-Ali Hadjizadeh told the
corps’ own sepahnews.com website that “US hostility can’t be forgotten with
a phone call and a smile.”
On September 17, Khamenei said it was “unnecessary” for the Guards to get
involved in politics.
The previous day, Rouhani called on the Guards to “stand above political
tendencies.”
Rowhani’s contact with Obama was broadly welcomed in the Iranian press as well
as abroad, but a small group of hardline Islamists protested outside
Tehran’s Mehrabad airport on his return.
A shoe was thrown, as the protesters chanted: “Death to America,” a slogan
that was long a ritual refrain at official rallies.
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