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From: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: 2/11/2013 5:45:09 PM 
To: Larry Summers_______________________ 
Subject: prep for dinner, israel pres briefing / 
The Wall Street Journal 
The Ayatollah Always Says No  
Editorial 
February 8, 2013 --The Farsi word for "no" is na h, which is easy enough 
to remember. Maybe even Joe Biden won't forget it the next time the U.S. 
tries to reach out diplomatically to Iran. 
We're speaking of the Administration's latest effort to come to terms with 
Tehran over its nuclear programs, which Mr. Biden made last weekend at 
the Munich Security Conference. The U.S. offer of direct bilateral talks, 
he said, "stands, but it must be real and tangible." Iranian foreign minister 
Ali Akbar Salehi, who was also at the conference though he refused to 
meet with U.S. officials, called Mr. Biden's comments "a step forward." 
Mr. Salehi's remark set the usual hearts aflutter that Iran is finally serious 
about a deal. But the optimism was brief On Thursday, Iran's Supreme 
Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei flatly rejected direct talks with the U.S. 
"The U.S. is pointing a gun at Iran and wants us to talk to them," he said. 
"Direct talks will not solve any problems." 
This isn't the first time Mr. Khamenei has played chaste Daphne to 
President Obama's infatuated Apollo. Just after becoming President in 
2009, Mr. Obama sent the Ayatollah two private letters and delivered a 
conciliatory speech for the Persian new year of Nowruz. Mr. Khamenei's 
answer: "They chant the slogan of change but no change is seen in 
practice." He told a crowd chanting "death to America" that "if a hand is 
stretched covered with a velvet glove but it is cast iron inside, that makes 
no sense." 
That was in March 2009. In October of that year the U.S. and its allies 
tentatively worked out a deal with Iranian negotiators to move some of 
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their enriched uranium outside Iran. Western analysts were confident that 
Mr. Khamenei would give

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