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To: marcos who wrote (119535)	11/14/2003 5:50:59 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 281500

As Randy Newman once said, "..beware, beware, of the naked man." Here's Mad Mullah Khamenei's response to Bush's recent call for democracy in the ME. In an tiny nutshell, "why should we trust the motives of the country that supported the Shah and, once, Saddam?": irna.ir Supreme leader says US frustrated over Iraq, Afghanistan campaign Tehran, Nov 14, IRNA -- The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said here on Friday that the US is frustrated over its military campaign in Afghanistan and Iraq, warning that Washington is now trying to devise cultural and political ploys to harm the countries of the region from inside. Ayatollah Khamenei, delivering a sermon at Tehran's Imam Khomeini Mosalla (prayer ground), said the US has already realized that its military plans will no longer bear fruit in the Middle East, and cautioned that the White House leaders have now resorted to new schemes to push forward their campaign in the region. He said the recent remarks by US officials to advocate democracy in the Middle East depict that they are pursuing sinister policies in the region, and called on the regional states to exercise prudence toward the positions of the American leaders. "Whoever is familiar with the policies of US leaders over the past years from World War II onward feels ashamed to hear the remarks by the president of such a regime to claim that it is the custodian of democracy," the supreme leader said. "Why should an individual be so impudent to utter such a baseless and wrong remark?" Ayatollah Khamenei US positions toward the issue of democracy have been particularly planned to nip the calls of nations for justice in the bud, stressing that such positions are accordingly "not worth the attention". He recalled the efforts by former US governments to support dictatorship in Iran, and also to back the regime of the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein against the Iranians. The supreme leader highlighted the killings of civilians by US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and lashed out at US leaders for refusing to apologize to the people of those countries for the killings. Ayatollah Khamenei stressed that the US is everyday receiving serious blows in Afghanistan and Iraq, adding that the White House, from the position of an aggressor, has realized that its previous plots will not work anymore. Ayatollah Khamenei stressed that they had entered Iraq under the pretext of liberating the Iraqis, and regretted that US campaign in the country had created a devastating situation. He said the US had replaced an Iraqi dictator with a foreign dictator in Iraq, stressing that the US would exercise the same oppressive policies that were used by the regime of Saddam Hussein. Ayatollah Khamenei said the US leaders have realized that they can do nothing in the region through military approaches, stressing that Washington knows that it would face numerous problems in starting a military campaign in the Middle East. "They are now confessing that their previous plans to use military action to press ahead their policies in the region had been wrong, and the plan should be to degenerate the nations," he said adding that such degeneration was plotted to be implemented in cultural and political domains. "The global arrogance of the US and the Zionist regime are trying to disappoint the people toward their aspirations thus setting the stage for the return of an American domination," the supreme leader said to the chants of "Death to America" and "Death to Israel". Ayatollah Khamenei warned that the White House is pursuing serious plans to saw seeds of discord among Iran's political parties as the cornerstone of its policy to harm the Islamic Republic. He also said that the US is trying to create an atmosphere of tension in Iran by challenging the principles of Islam, the Islamic Revolution and the Constitution so as to promote its own policies against Iran. Ayatollah Khamenei further stressed that the US would face numerous difficulties if it continued military approaches toward others, stressing the held true with the Islamic Republic. He stressed that the US is at the same time considering to support domestic print media to become its own loudspeakers against the Islamic establishment, stressing that the Iranians must be prudent toward such measures. The supreme leader also warned that the US is annoyed over the success of the Islamic Republic in various areas, and warned that any effort to obstruct the development of the country would benefit the interests of the US. "Whoever undermines the efforts by the government to serve the people has acted to the benefit of the US. Whoever propagates the views of the US in the newspapers ... and has acted to the benefit of the US," Ayatollah Khamenei said. "Any step to propagate rumors and to level false charges on others would serve the interests of the US, and whoever promotes such practices and deteriorates a war of nerves in Iran is the mercenary of the US." The supreme leader of the Islamic Revolution further called on the Iranian nation to resist US political and cultural plots, stressing that the nation must be aware toward the efforts of the enemy against Iran's sovereignty. "The US has failed to achieve the desired results in attacking the region. And it is true that the US takes away Iraq's oil for its own," Ayatollah Khamenei said. "Still, the hatred of the Iraqi people toward the US will increase day by day and the US will receive more blows from the Iraqi nation. And as the late (founder of the Islamic Revolution) Imam Khomeini put it, the US today has become the most hated before the Muslim world and there is no figure who is detested the most in the Islamic world than the US president and the Israeli prime minister."