Basij Commander: No Change in US Hostile Attitude towards Iran

Commander of Iran’s Basij (volunteer) force Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi underlined that the US officials have not stopped their hostility towards Iran.
“The US hostility towards Iran has not ended and such animosities are still continuing,” Brigadier General Naqdi said on Thursday.

The commander of Iran’s Basij reiterated that Washington has not given up its regime change scenario.

“If the US had the power to invade Iran, it would not hesitate to do it,” Supreme Leader added.

In August, Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei categorically rejected political negotiations with the US, cautioning that talks with Washington are harmful to Iran.

“Relations with the US and negotiations with that country, except for very specific cases, don’t have any benefits for the Islamic Republic and it is even harmful; which wise person would go after a futile job,” Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei said at the time, addressing Iran’s diplomatic corps abroad.

“Some people pretended that if we sit to the negotiating table with the Americans, many problems will be settled; of course, we knew that it is not correct but the events during the recent years has now proved this reality several times,” he added.

Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei referred to the nuclear talks held between Iran and the world powers, including the US, in the current year, and said the meetings and contacts with the Americans in this period not only proved futile, but also emboldened the US officials to raise extensive demands from Tehran.

“Generally speaking, it was revealed that despite the imaginations of certain people, negotiations won’t help anything,” Supreme Leader underlined.

The Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei expressed anger that during the negotiations with Iran, the Americans intensified their sanctions against Iran, saying that the talks for relieving the pressures and embargoes against Tehran yielded no results.

“As long as the status quo, that is to say the US animosity and the hostile statements of the US administration and Congress on Iran continue, (Iran’s) interaction with them will be unjustified,” the Iranian Supreme Leader stressed.

The United States and Iran broke diplomatic relations in April 1980, after Iranian students seized the United States’ espionage center at its embassy in Tehran. The two countries have had tense relations ever since, but have shown willingness to attend talks to help resolve regional issues, including security in Iraq. Yet, the two countries have avoided talks on bilateral issues for the last thirty years.