BERLIN (Reuters) - Iran wants to improve bilateral relations with the United States and other Western powers, President Hassan Rouhani said in an editorial published in a German newspaper on Monday, broaching an issue he has so far avoided since he took office.

Rouhani won a landslide election victory in June promising a policy of engagement with the West and has had regular diplomatic contacts with the United States, but they have been limited to negotiations over Tehran's nuclear program.

"We want to rebuild and improve our relations to European and North American countries on a basis of mutual respect," he wrote in a contribution for the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.

"We are striving to avoid new burdens on relations between Iran and the United States and also to remove the tensions that we have inherited," said Rouhani, who has promised to reduce Tehran's isolation and to win an easing of sanctions.

Tehran and Washington severed relations after Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution.

Iran cannot forget everything that has affected relations with the United States over the last 60 years, he said, but added: "We must now concentrate on the present and orientate ourselves towards the future."

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Rouhani's diplomatic pragmatism has already resulted in significant progress. While in New York for the United Nations General Assembly in September, Rouhani held an historic telephone call with Barack Obama, the first time the presidents of the two nations have spoken in more than three decades.

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Iranian officials subsequently emphasized the call was to support a diplomatic resolution of Iran's nuclear program and did not concern direct bilateral ties. Two months later Iran and world powers signed an interim deal to curb part of Iran's nuclear activities in return for some sanctions relief.

Rouhani, a former nuclear negotiator, said he was doing whatever he could to end tensions over Tehran's nuclear activities, which have raised concerns in the West that Iran is seeking to develop an atomic weapons capability. Iranian officials have repeatedly denied such suggestions.

"We have never even considered the option of acquiring nuclear weapons," Rouhani said. "We'll never give up our right to profit from nuclear energy. But we are working towards removing all doubts and answer all reasonable questions about our program."

Iran agreed under the November 24 accord to stop its most sensitive nuclear work - uranium enrichment to a fissile concentration of 20 percent - and cap other parts of its activities in exchange for some limited easing of sanctions, including trade in petrochemicals and gold.

On Sunday, world powers and Iran suspended their technical talks in Geneva on how to implement the agreement until after the Christmas holidays following slow progress.

In a posting on Facebook on Monday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said they would resume early next week but he described all stages of the talks as complex.

(Reporting By Erik Kirschbaum; Additional reporting by Marcus George in Dubai; Editing by Gareth Jones)

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The Arcturian Group Christmas Message via Marilyn Raffaele: December 22, 2013

By Stephen Cook – December 24, 2013

As we get to the pointy end of 2013, I’m personally delighted to see that it seems the avalanche of truth that we have long been hoping for – and have been told was coming – has finally begun.

The NSA revelations continue to fall out, day after day, courtesy of one very brave young man, Edward Snowden (see separate story below). Revelations of this. Revelations of that. More spying. More intrusive invasions of privacy for both public and private individuals. Foreign governments, leaders and even charities under the NSA surveillance’ microscopes. And, yet, I just ‘know, there is WAY more to come…on many levels.

We’re also seeing the uncovering of many other truths, with the media covering some of the many cover-ups of recent years… 9/11. Lockerbie, corruption in governments around the world. Even forgiveness and debt forgiveness are now being talked about openly.

So, yes. it’s Christmas and the truths are snowing down. Let’s look at some of the various aspects of this avalanche of truth within the past two weeks alone.

This week, we’ve seen this major expose (1), NSA Declassifies Bush Era Documents – ‘”Bush Authorised Spying”:

“The director of national intelligence on Saturday declassified more documents that outline how the National Security Agency was first authorised to start collecting bulk phone and internet records in the hunt for al-Qaida terrorists and how a court eventually gained oversight of the program, after the justice department complied with a federal court order to release its previous legal arguments for keeping the programs secret.

“James Clapper explained in a statement on Saturday that President George W Bush first authorised the spying in October 2001, as part of the Terrorist Surveillance Program, just after the 9/11 attacks. Bush disclosed the program in 2005.”

Also in the past few days, we’ve seen a variety of stories which openly lay claim to the fact that what we’ve long been told about 9/11 – and which many, many people in their hearts and souls ‘know’ was not the truth – is starting to seep out – but now in the mainstream. We’ve now seen the Washington Post exclusive story (2) which claims the whole event was planned in cahoots with the Saudis. Well, this may be a portion of the truth, but at least the public is being made aware that there was “government involvement” in this world-changing, fear-evoking event; the greatest fear-evoking event in human history.

“After the 9/11 attacks, the public was told al Qaeda acted alone, with no state sponsors.

“But the White House never let it see an entire section of Congress’ investigative report on 9/11 dealing with “specific sources of foreign support” for the 19 hijackers, 15 of whom were Saudi nationals.

“It was kept secret and remains so today.

“President Bush inexplicably censored 28 full pages of the 800-page report. Text isn’t just blacked-out here and there in this critical-yet-missing middle section. The pages are completely blank, except for dotted lines where an estimated 7,200 words once stood …

“A pair of lawmakers who recently read the redacted portion say they are “absolutely shocked” at the level of foreign state involvement in the attacks.”

We’ve also had the President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, state emphatically that “Corruption is Public Enemy No 1″. We’ve had articles saying multiple governments say they want justice and further investigations into the Lockerbie bombing (see below), which only add more traction to previous stories linking the Lockerbie bombing to arms deals. We’ve also had major arrests in Turkey and also, some very public (and not-so-gentle) political ’roundups’ in North Korea.

In India, we’ve seen an anti-corruption party take government in the world’s second largest democratic country’s largest city, shortly after the approval of a new anti-corruption watchdog.

Plus we’ve seen forgiveness come to the fore, with both the Russians forgiving the Cubans for their debt and the Russian leader Vladimir Putin providing amnesty for some prisoners. Meanwhile, President Obama has also been commuting sentences for long-term drug criminals. Now, today, we see the UK Royal pardon of Enigma codebreaker, Alan Turing.

And, suddenly,the Cubans seems to be wanting to start a dialogue with the US, following a symbolic handshake between leaders at Nelson Mandel’s funeral service.

Oh, and did I mention, Uruguay has legalized marijuana as it begins to end the ‘war’ on drugs and break down the income stream for the secret groups that have run the worldwide drug trade for years.

So it’s truth has been tumbling down the mountain of secrecy in many ways and on on many fronts.

Journalist Ben Fulford’s latest post (3), dated December 24, 2013, titled Multiple Sources Confirm 2014 Will Be the Year of Revolution in the West (which is a subscription posts so I will only run some extracts from it) also indicates big changes in the disclosure of truth are now underway.

While I cannot personally verify all Ben claims, at least his ‘intel’ is saying what we’re all now seeing the beginnings and the results of in the wider world.

He talks of the” avalanche of disclosure appearing in corporate mass media outlets about long taboo topics like 9/11, the Lockerbie bombing, the Kennedy assassination etc. indicating some sort of attempt at starting a truth and reconciliation process has begun. He adds that:

“In the US, there is a growing move within the establishment to start exposing the truth about 9/11. When Congress members start asking questions in Congress about it, for example, they are showing that they know it is safe to start talking about it in public now. The move to blame the Saudis being given wide publicity is a precursor to taking down the Bush/Nazi/Zionist faction.

“The truth about the Kennedy assassination is also now coming out, again as a part of that same trend. The sealed public documents relating to the assassination are due to be released to the public soon, according to sources close to Kennedy daughter US Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy. The sealed files are almost all held by the CIA, especially its Nazi/Bush faction the Directorate of Operations.

“There is also a move to start disclosing the CIA’s secret Iranian connection, according to MI5. One of the most damning things to come out last week concerned the Lockerbie Bombing of 1988 in which a bomb blew up an airliner over Scotland, killing 243 people.”

He also states that while the official story is that it was done by Libya it now turns out the operation was carried out to cover up the Iranian/Bush/Nazi drug connection, according to MI5 sources. He explains this by adding:

“First let us review what the connection was in a bigger context. The Iranian revolution that replaced the Shah of Iran with Ayatollah Khomeini was a Cabal run operation aimed at grabbing Persian imperial gold supplies (the gold was evacuated to Thailand), according to a cousin of the Shah. Later, George Bush Sr. got Ronald Reagan elected as President and himself as Vice President in large part because of the “October surprise” – the sabotaged rescue attempt by President Carter of the US Embassy officials being held hostage in Tehran. That operation was run by Bush agent Osama Bin Laden (aka Tim Osman) and his flunky Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

“The attempt by agency and government white hats to counter the Bush faction with the Iran/Contra hearings during the Reagan Presidency failed to remove the Bush faction. One reason was because the Lockerbie bombing killed US military intelligence and CIA officers who were on that flight on their way back to report that the Frankfurt (Bush/Nazi) branch of the CIA was running drugs out of the Bekaa valley in Lebanon for the Iranians. The plane was blown up to prevent them from reporting this to the Pentagon. Also, it happens that the commander of the Qods or Iranian special forces in the Bekaa valley became the Iranian Defense Minister a couple of years ago.”

Fulford also asserts:

“Incidents like Lockerbie are important to Pentagon types because they represent high treason. That is why we are hearing from CIA and Pentagon sources that nobody is in the mood for a touchy-feely peace and reconciliation process…

And concludes:

“…All this is coming out now because Bush and his faction have been defeated at a high level and arrests of Nazis have been proceeding at a fast clip.”

While I believe that all will transpire just as it should, with little violence – and we have yet to see mainstream proof of mass arrests – it is still evident that the avalanche of truth has finally begun.

And, as they say, once the avalanche begins the dominoes of truth will fall one by one by one and until the whole stack of truth has toppled.

So here’s a list of the various stories we’ve run on the blog over the past two weeks that are tangible proof of the title of this post. For it is now very evident and true that The Avalanche of Truth Has Finally Begun.

(1) http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/12/nsa-declassfies-bush-era-documents-bush-authorised-spying/

(2) http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/12/truth-begins-inside-the-saudi-911-cover-up/

http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/12/world-bank-president-calls-corruption-public-enemy-no-1/

http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/12/leaders-vow-justice-on-lockerbie-anniversary/

http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/07/email-links-lockerbie-bombers-prison-transfer-to-us615m-libyan-arms-deal/

http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/12/turkey-corruption-arrests-16-charged-including-bank-chief-and-ministers-sons-as-pms-circle-targeted/

http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/12/north-korean-political-purge-continues/

http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/12/indias-anti-corruption-party-storms-to-election-win-in-delhi-state/

http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/12/india-approves-anti-corruption-watchdog/

http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/12/forgiveness-obama-commutes-record-drug-sentences-as-putin-provides-pardon-for-man-considered-to-be-enemy/

http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/12/russia-forgives-90-of-cubas-debt-as-putin-overhauls-top-news-agency/

http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/12/cuba-castro-calls-on-us-to-establish-civilized-relations/

http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/12/uruguay-legalises-production-and-sale-of-cannabis/

(3) http://benjaminfulford.net/2013/12/24/multiple-sources-confirm-2014-will-be-the-year-of-revolution-in-the-west/

Archangel Metatron via Natalie Glasson: An Empowering Time of Transition for One and All

Posted by Alice C on December 24, 2013

Archangel Metatron: An Empowering Time of Transition for One and All, channeled by Natalie Glasson, December 16, 2013 at http://omna.org

Within your being is the most beautiful light like a beacon unfolding gradually beaming with greater strength into your awareness, cells and entire being. Your soul is appearing more and more within your physical manifestation upon the Earth, attracting all that it needs to be fully present within and throughout your being.

A deep cleansing is occurring within all levels of your being as you prepare for a greater and more profound birth of your soul into your reality and magnificent presence upon the Earth. The birth of the soul is occurring within every being upon the Earth, it has been a continuous process for some time now but the end of 2013 and the year of 2014 marks a profound birth of higher aspects of each person’s soul within their being.

This will have a powerful impact upon the way in which you perceive yourself and the reality around you, even the way in which you perceive the Creator. A major shift within your being connected to the soul is waiting to occur but this shift requires tremendous courage from you in your entirety, as well as a new conscious focus upon linking all the aspect of your being on all levels of the Creator’s dimension as one to achieve a high frequency alignment which merges all aspects of your being, especially all aspects of your soul in a supreme divine unity. This unity will allow for a new stream and flow from the Creator which will completely alter the energetic patterning of your being and body as well as revitalising you with the supreme light of the Creator.

I spoke much of a stronger experience of unity in 2012, the unity you created especially between humanity; souls upon the Earth is still even now permeating your cells and altering your consciousness, this permeation allows for a new experience of unity to evolve. Imagine there are aspects of your soul on all levels of the Creator’s universe, even within the source of the Creator there are aspects of your soul, other aspects are scattered existing in diverse and different civilisations upon the stars, planets and dimensions of the Creator’s universe.

It is now time for all aspects of your soul to reinforce their eternal connection, becoming conscious of the divine unity with all aspects of your soul, thus allowing all aspects of the soul to simultaneously experience the divine flow of the Creator. This is likened to all aspects of your soul being simultaneously embraced in profound love of the Creator, encouraging all aspects of your soul to fully experience love and share it throughout the many soul aspects. A circuit of love will begin to flow activating all aspects of your soul, creating a greater whole.

As your soul aspects become closer and exist in unity and deeper oneness then a deeper love than has ever been experienced emerges. Your soul within your being and wherever else it resides within the Creator’s universe increases in power and connectivity with the Creator thus stepping into manifestation with tremendous strength and integrity as the soul takes its rightful place within the bodies of men and women upon the Earth and all other manifestations of the Creator.

With the powerful presence of the soul gently charging forth it carries with it a profound love experienced from all aspects of your soul and soul group uniting as one in a deep oneness of love with the Creator. The new vibrations of united soul love is given by each person as a gift to the Earth and its reality at this time and throughout 2014, thus elevating as if through supreme determination the Era of Love upon the Earth so all may exist in and experience the love of the Creator.

‘May all exist in and experience the love of the Creator.’

This is an affirmation gift that I share with you now; it is the dawning of an age of love. The affirmation when said by you is a request to the Creator not only on behalf of you but for all souls upon the Earth and throughout the Creator’s universe to awaken, unity and experience the love of the Creator, moving beyond suffering and pain into freedom. Allow yourself to experience and acknowledge how powerful your request is and how influential it is for the evolution and ascension of all. This affirmation when stated out loud with an inner silence and a powerful integrity can alter the experience of all bringing peace to the past and profound love to the future.

The time upon the Earth is a very powerful time, do not force or push yourself or your spiritual growth in any way but allow it to unfold as you realise that your conscious awareness of yourself, all that you are and the Creator is emerging as you move truly from darkness into profound gleaming light. This is to say that you are moving away from your attachment to the darkness within you into a secure and eternal existence into the light which has always been present within your being.

In this time when it is only as if you are on the very verge of true experience of the love of the Creator, there only lies before you more ever growing and expanding experiences of the Creator’s love. It is true though that as you stand at the verge of this most wondrous time of experiencing love that the deepest and darkest aspects of yourself must emerge. No longer can pain, suffering or aspects of the ego hide or remain silent or influential within your being and consciousness.

An unloading of your unneeded energy and all that doesn’t resonate with love is necessary at this time before you are able to proceed further into your experiences of the Creator’s love. For some this will occur before entrance into 2014, for others it will be a gradual process maybe even continuing throughout 2014. It is important to not perceive this unburdening as a negative experience but more so as a final initiation of the old era of learning through suffering and pain allowing you to truly step through the threshold into experiences of the love of the Creator.

Let your focus at this time be directed towards your soul and its many aspects, also towards your soul group. Remember that your soul has many extension aspects; some may exist on the Earth or the inner planes throughout the Creator’s universe. During meditation begin to call upon your soul aspects to unite and to be embraced simultaneously in the love of the Creator in order for a deeper unity of love to form.

‘I call upon the Creator, my guides and loved ones upon the inner planes to surround me in your loving support and protection. I call upon all aspects of my soul to become consciously aware. I ask that I, as an aspect of my soul and soul group, am appropriately and divinely consciously connected with all other aspects of my soul and soul group. With a network of energy and unity flowing between us, we call forth the Creator to simultaneously embrace each aspect of my soul and soul group for a deep and profound experience of love, the love of the Creator.

As we vibrate in and as love let the same love that all aspects of my soul and soul group experience permeate all manifestations of my soul in all lifetimes, past present and future. With the love of the Creator growing a divine flow of the Creator and current of love erupts, sending fusions of supreme love to all aspects of my soul. A deep unity of love is now experienced. As a result of this my entire being is revitalised with supreme and divine vibrations of love, while shifts and alterations aligned to love occur within all energetic levels of love. ‘

Know that in truth you are connected to all beings, all beings are charged with the love of the Creator as you experience a continuously deepening oneness of love with all aspects and levels of your soul. Imagine, sense or acknowledge that a supreme divinely altering flow of love is like a current emerging through your being, akin to a complete rejuvenation and revitalisation.

‘In and with the present of my soul merging and higher aspects being born within my being, I allow all deep settled unneeded, negative or dark energy to merge with ease, understanding and awareness in order for me to experience true freedom from the past and the past consciousness of humanity. I am aware of the deep healing process I am moving through and choose to exist in profound love eternally and in every present moment.

I am now in the presence of my soul; I honour and love my soul unconditionally. ‘

Then simply sit in contemplation and meditation observing all that arises and the energy flowing through your being.

‘I am that I am, I am the Soul that I am.’

Such a powerful time you are experiencing now upon the Earth, a time that makes way for a new form of living as and experiencing the love of the Creator.

With eternal love and support,

Archangel Metatron

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