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Friday prayers interim leader: US interests to be at stake in case of Iran attack

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Tehran, Aug 6, IRNA -- Substitute Friday prayers leader of Tehran Hojjatoleslam Ahmad Jannati said here on Friday that the US attack on Iran would be tantamount to endangerment of the US interests worldwide.

Delivering his second sermon to this week’s congregational prayers here at Tehran University campus, Hojjatoleslam Khatami said even if the US succeeds to pit the Zionist regime against Iran, the historic remark of the late Imam Khomeini, that Israel will be wiped off the map, will be realized.

Also touching on the claim of the US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen, that Military actions against Iran have been and remain on the table, Hojjatoleslam Khatami said prospect of attack on Iran is worrisome because immediately after the claims, the US envoy in the agency said in an interview that Mullen’s claims should not be taken seriously.

Addressing the American officials, the Hojjatoleslam said, “Your threats-- being serious or not-- we do not take them as a threat. Neither do we consider your negotiations as negotiations because the US government is untrustworthy, a liar and uncommitted to international values.”

He said that on the one hand, the US cunningly pushes a sanctions resolution against Iran through the UN Security Council and issues unilateral sanctions and on the other hand, claims that is ready for talks with Tehran.

“We take the US policy as a `cast-iron hand with velvet covering'-- as the Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution has called it-- and take it as a lie and deception,” he announced.

Such claims clearly stand for the US psychological war on Iran, he added.

The US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff should have been worried about attacking Iran because he knows pretty well that attack on Iran will immediately put the US interests worldwide at stake, warned Hojjatoleslam Khatami.

He said all know clearly that the forged Zionist regime survives only and only because of the US help. “If the US stops helping the regime for a single day, it can not survive,” he added.

On Zionist regime’s invasion on Lebanon and Gaza last week, Hojjatoleslam Khatami said the invasion was repelled thanks to the heroic resistance of Lebanese army and it left the scene only few hours after accepting a humiliating ceasefire.

He said through the strike, the Zionist regime planned to test resistance of the Muslim world states and of course faced valuable resistance of Iran, Syria and Hizbollah that announced their candid support for Lebanon.

If the world is really worried about global peace and tranquility, it should know that the Zionist regime is the essential danger. “If you favor restoration of calm and peace worldwide, you should know that no peace will be possible as long as the criminal regime survives,” he added.

The Zionist regime’s defiance of international regulations should be taken as a danger for global peace, he said, adding that the world should rise up to confront the criminal state.