Imam Khamenei Condemns Boston Attack, Says US Has Double Standards

The Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei condemned on Wednesday the bomb attack that hit Boston, but indicated that the United States has double standards regarding the killing of innocent people.

Speaking before a crowd of leaders and members of the mobilization forces, Basij, and the Army, The Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei said that the US remained silent when massacres fell on innocent people in our region; however, it raised its voice when a bomb hit its territories.

“In compliance with the logic of Islam, the Islamic Republic of Iran opposes and condemns any kind of explosion and killing of innocent people no matter where it takes place, whether in the United States’ Boston or in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria,” Fars news agency quoted the Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei as saying.

His eminence considered that the attitude of “the US and other states, that pretend are concerned of human rights, toward the killing of innocent individuals, contradicts with their silence toward the killing of innocents in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.”

“What kind of logic says if children and women in Afghanistan and Pakistan are killed by Americans and if terrorists supported by the US, the West, and the Zionists bring catastrophes to Iraq and Syria, this wouldn’t matter, but if a blast hits the US or a western country, then the whole world should pay the price for that,” the Supreme Leader asked.

The Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei referred, in his statement, to “the irrationality of the arrogant front, under the leadership of America,” indicating that “because of the contradictions, irrationality, arrogance, and disregard to the human principles in the Western culture, today it is vulnerable to breakdown and collapse.”

The Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei made this statement on the occasion of the National Army Day, in which he paid tribute to the Iranian army, considering its progress in all fields was a source of pride to the Iranian nation.