Saturday, February 11, 2012

Iran will carry out its threats if necessary: Leader

TEHRAN, Feb. 3 (MNA) -- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said that Iran will carry out its own threats in response to the threats of war and oil sanctions should the need arise.

“The Americans must be aware and of course are aware that the Islamic Republic of Iran has threats for facing threats of war and threats of an oil embargo, which will be carried out when necessary through the will of God,” Ayatollah Khamenei told worshippers at this week’s Friday prayers at the campus of the University of Tehran.

U.S. officials have repeatedly said, “All options are on the table” to contain Iran, the Leader said, adding, “The sentence means a threat of war, but everyone knew that such a threat would harm the United States since starting a war would harm the United States ten times more.”

The fact that U.S. officials have been using threatening language indicates their desperation in the face of Iran’s logic, Ayatollah Khamenei stated.

“The U.S. has no logic besides force and knows no way other than war to impose its demands,” he added. The resort to threats and tyranny has discredited U.S. officials in the eyes of the world’s nations and the people of the United States, Ayatollah Khamenei said, adding, “There is no hope for the survival of a government whose reputation has been ruined in the eyes of its people, and it will face no fate other than destruction and collapse, as the dissolution of the Soviet Union is” proof of this fact.

Elsewhere in his remarks, the Leader advised the Iranian people to not be deceived by the “smile” and “false promises” of the enemies, saying, “They renege on their promises easily; they break their promises; they do not act in line with what they say; they are not ashamed before God; they are not ashamed before God’s creatures; they are not ashamed before the negotiating side; they tell lies easily. I have living proof.

“When the need arises, we will inform the world’s people about the remarks the Americans made, (what) the U.S. president said, the letter he wrote, their reaction, and what they did with the content of the letters.”

Egyptians will rescind Camp David Accords

Commenting on the situation of the Zionist regime, Ayatollah Khamenei said, “The tumor of Israel, which is in fact cancerous, must be removed from the region, and this will definitely happen.”

The Leader also spoke about the Egyptian revolution, saying, “The Egyptian nation will once again position themselves on the front line of defending the cause of Palestine and will cut the dictatorial Mubarak regime’s support for the Zionists through trampling the treasonous Camp David Accords underfoot.”

Iran will support opponents of Israel

Elsewhere in his sermon, Ayatollah Khamenei dismissed the claims that Iran is interfering in Bahrain’s internal affairs, noting, “Such a claim is a sheer lie because if we had intervened, the situation in Bahrain would have been different.”

“We clearly announce whenever we intervene, as we intervened in the victorious 33-day and 22-day wars [Lebanon 2006 and Gaza 2008-2009] due to (our) opposition to the cancerous tumor of the Zionist regime, and we will support any nation or group that opposes the Zionist regime from now on, and we have no fear of announcing this.”

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MNA

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