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10-29-2008, 07:31 PM
Leader: US must apologize to Iranians
Wed, 29 Oct 2008
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=73656§ionid=351020101
Ayatollah Khamenei says the US-Iran dispute is deep-seated.
The Leader of the Islamic Revolution says the US must apologize for its wrongdoings to the Iranian nation if it seeks closer Tehran ties.
Tehran and Washington severed diplomatic ties in 1979.
"The dispute [with America] goes beyond differences of opinion on a few political issues," said Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei Wednesday.
Speaking six days before the US presidential election, the Leader said Iranian 'hatred' toward the White House is the result of US 'plots against the Iranian people over the past 50 years'.
Iran holds the United States responsible for a CIA-launched coup in 1953 against the then democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddeq.
The coup marked the first successful CIA overthrow of a foreign government in history, in which the US restated its close ally Mohammad-Reza Pahlavi, the Shah, in Iran.
US Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has pledged to directly and diplomatically engage Iran should he take office; raising the prospect of closer Tehran-Washington relations.
According to Senator Obama, the means of diplomacy will only be used in talks over Iran's nuclear program.
In his Wednesday address before Iranian scholars and students, Ayatollah Khamenei said it is disappointing that US politicians have never expressed regret over their anti-Iran actions.
"Instead, they continue to adopt the same arrogant attitude toward Iranians," the Leader added.
According to former US secretary of state Madeleine K. Albright, the US declaration of war on democracy in Iran in 1953 has had a pivotal role in the troubled relations of the two countries.
"It is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in their internal affairs," Albright said in a March 2000 address.
Ayatollah Khamenei said the US has adopted a hostile approach toward Iran since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in the hopes of isolating the country and forcing it to crawl back to the US hemisphere of power.
The Leader, however, added that the same policy toward Iran would not work at a time when the incumbent US president has driven his country into a crisis.
Eight years of President George W. Bush in the White House has drastically damaged US reputation in the international community.
Wed, 29 Oct 2008
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=73656§ionid=351020101
Ayatollah Khamenei says the US-Iran dispute is deep-seated.
The Leader of the Islamic Revolution says the US must apologize for its wrongdoings to the Iranian nation if it seeks closer Tehran ties.
Tehran and Washington severed diplomatic ties in 1979.
"The dispute [with America] goes beyond differences of opinion on a few political issues," said Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei Wednesday.
Speaking six days before the US presidential election, the Leader said Iranian 'hatred' toward the White House is the result of US 'plots against the Iranian people over the past 50 years'.
Iran holds the United States responsible for a CIA-launched coup in 1953 against the then democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddeq.
The coup marked the first successful CIA overthrow of a foreign government in history, in which the US restated its close ally Mohammad-Reza Pahlavi, the Shah, in Iran.
US Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has pledged to directly and diplomatically engage Iran should he take office; raising the prospect of closer Tehran-Washington relations.
According to Senator Obama, the means of diplomacy will only be used in talks over Iran's nuclear program.
In his Wednesday address before Iranian scholars and students, Ayatollah Khamenei said it is disappointing that US politicians have never expressed regret over their anti-Iran actions.
"Instead, they continue to adopt the same arrogant attitude toward Iranians," the Leader added.
According to former US secretary of state Madeleine K. Albright, the US declaration of war on democracy in Iran in 1953 has had a pivotal role in the troubled relations of the two countries.
"It is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in their internal affairs," Albright said in a March 2000 address.
Ayatollah Khamenei said the US has adopted a hostile approach toward Iran since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in the hopes of isolating the country and forcing it to crawl back to the US hemisphere of power.
The Leader, however, added that the same policy toward Iran would not work at a time when the incumbent US president has driven his country into a crisis.
Eight years of President George W. Bush in the White House has drastically damaged US reputation in the international community.