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President Khatami rejects Bush's statements on Iran
Tehran, Jan 30, IRNA -- Iran's President Seyed Mohammad Khatami in
remarks during his cabinet meeting responded to the US President
George W. Bush's aggressive approach towards Iran during his first
Congressional address.
President Khatami evaluated Bush's remarks as 'intervening,
warmongering, insulting, a repetition of his past propagation, and
worse than all, truly insulting towards the Iranian nation.'
Khatami added that the 'great Iranian nation' will never yield
to arrogant demands of the foreigners, although 'we are against
warmongering, and favor peace. A type of peace that is based on
prevalence of justice for the whole mankind.'
He reiterated, 'our nation has proved it is ready to pay the
needed cost for its independence, freedom and Islamic Republic.'
President Khatami said, 'what is of top importance is that
adopting such aggressive moods merely leads to further unity and
olidarity among the Iranian nation in their confrontation with those
governments whose appetite will never be saturated and are always
intending to intervene in others' affairs.'
The president said, 'Mr. Bush, the American President, has made
certain remarks, which show he is not only unable to learn lessons
form history, but is meanwhile after drawing a road-map for the
future American policy-making that is far worse and less realistic
than that country's past.'
The Iranian president said, 'the arrogant and intervening tone
of President Bush in his recent remarks reminded everyone of the
tone of the early American history politicians and he talked about
the Iranian nation using truly insulting words.'
He added, 'Iran is both a victim of terrorism and a victim of
chemical weapons, which were generously donated to our enemies by
those who were after uprooting the Islamic Revolution.'
President Khatami said, 'unfortunately after the September 11
terrorist attacks in the United States, when the world's public
opinion was mobilized towards fight against international terrorism,
that great and important opportunity was misused, while misusing
such opportunities is doing injustice to the whole mankind.'
He reiterated, 'we wholeheartedly believe that the sad September
11 incidents were a big crime committed against humanity. 'At the
same time,' the president said, 'the role played by the wrong US
policies and the inappropriate stands adopted by US politicians in the
past in paving the ground for the September 11 attacks and the great
losses it inflicted on the US nation should not be ignored either.'
Khatami emphasized the American nation is a great nation that can
play a decisive role in the process of global move towards peace and
advancement, but it should first make clear that it does not favor
those American politicians that in the name of peace propagate for
war and bloodshed, and in the name of liberty bring forth tyranny and
oppression.
Islamic Republic's president said, 'we believe the American nation
should ask their politicians to wash their hands off warmongering
and mobilize all their capabilities and resorts in the service of
the global peace process based on justice.'
Khatami added, 'today, America insists on supporting the (racist)
Zionist regime that resorts to all types of crimes against the
Palestinians that are the most oppressed, most innocent nation in
the world and spares no efforts in doing so.'
He added, 'the American support for the Zionists is more evident
and more effective than ever before in history today, while Israel
does not even deal peacefully with the Palestinian Authority, that is
its own peace partner.'
Khatami further emphasized, 'the world favors dialogue and firm
logic today and such policies are doomed to failure.'
The Iranian president said, 'we hope for a comprehensive peace at
global level in the future and the warm welcome rendered by
intellectuals around the globe for the idea of Dialogue Among
Civilizations is efficient proof for our claims when we say the path
of mankind is in the opposite direction of that of the warmongers
and the dictators.'
NA/JB
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