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Imperato Outlines Necessary Steps for US/Iran Relations

Added: (Thu Sep 01 2005)

After the series of diplomacy fumbles between the United States and Iran, 2008 White House hopeful Daniel Imperato issued a statement in regards to US/Iran diplomatic relations.

“While the White House administration put out press on the new president of Iran, President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, on his election day, the press was so bad against him that if I was to be criticized by anyone who would accuse me of such things, I would be not only upset, but also would have deaf ears pertaining to any discussions with my accuser,” asserted Imperato who favors taking more of a diplomatic approach in regards to US/Iran relations.

Imperato felt that everyone has made mistakes in the past, but that those mistakes should be forgiven, rather than be used to sabotage a new president’s name in front of his people and the world


“Not only do you destroy your potential relationship with the new regime, but you also damage the opportunity to have constructive dialogue with the regime and person that you just defamed,” stated Imperato.

After the slanderous attacks on President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, which may or may not have been true, Imperato felt that the administration should not have broadcasted that message until it had its facts straight. Imperato went on to add that, “the administration should have abstained so that the media would not have blasted it all over the globe to create another enemy in the region. The incredulous thing that makes me wonder what our administration is doing is that two weeks later after the slanderous report against the president of Iran, our administration requested and demanded the new president adhere to our administration’s request to ban nuclear programs, if any, and to halt its production of these materials.”

Imperato felt that if somebody singled out you, as a criminal, damaged your reputation with your people and then asked you to have an open dialogue about a very sensitive subject, the response wouldn’t be warm and inviting.


“What is the most embarrassing thing for myself, especially if I was the commander-in-chief, would be the fact that a few weeks later our administration announced that a mistake was made and that the new president of Iran, was selected and accused because of his similar characteristics of other perpetrators. To my best knowledge, there was no formal apology for the damages caused with the relations with the new regime in Iran,” expressed Imperato.

The administration’s handling of such a delicate relationship with Iran, Iraq’s neighbor to the east, made Imperato uneasy. “How could we have an administration that is supposed to be the leading administration of the world make such mistakes and not even pay attention to the damages that have been caused to allow the administrations of both countries to come together in peace and harmony,” asserted Imperato, “I feel that this was a grave mistake on behalf of our administration and it further proves that the next president of the United States must be a man of the world in order to be the leader of the free world, and must have respect and understanding of the cultures involved and more importantly, the understanding of the people that live everyday in those cultures.”


Imperato felt that respect for people around the world was lacking in our currenty foreign policy strategy, and that with education and knowledge of global societies, these simple problems could be avoided.

Imperato concluded his statement with the following remarks, “I hope and pray that one day that I would have the ability, the permission, and the support from the people of the world to lead the world and for the people in the United States of America to vote for me in order to do so. God Bless America.”