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Cleric hails Ahmadinejad’s UN address

Senior cleric Ayatollah Kazem Seddiqi has praised President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s enlightening address to the UN General Assembly as “a gift from God” to the Iranians.

“The Iranian president at the United Nations clearly illustrated the message of the brave nation [of Iran] and the revered Leader [Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei], which is a message of fighting oppressors, resisting bullying powers and not surrendering,” IRNA quoted Ayatollah Seddiqi as saying.

Tehran’s interim Friday Prayers leader commended Ahmadinejad’s move to elaborate on the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program and challenge the US administration over its possible involvement in the September 11, 2001 attacks.

“We [Iranians] take these remarks (Ahmadinejad’s UN speech) as a gift granted to this nation by God,” he said.

Ayatollah Seddiqi criticized those who “create division and despair” in the country by turning a blind eye to the “remarkable and miraculous” breakthroughs in the course of the Islamic Revolution.

The cleric condemned the recent desecration of the Holy Qur’an by a group of US extremists on the anniversary of the 9/11 incident, as a satanic move by the Zionists and their Western allies.

Pointing to the publication of The Satanic Verses in the late 1980s and the more recent publication of insulting cartoons about Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) in Danish papers, the Iranian cleric said burning the Muslim holy book was another “link in a chain of schemes” aimed at thwarting the development of Islam and the Islamic establishment.

Ayatollah Seddiqi said these sacrilegious moves served as a diversion from the Palestinian issue and Israeli crimes against the people of Gaza.

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