Khazaee: United Iran will never bow to threats

Iranian Ambassador to the UN Mohammad Khazaee says the Iranian nation will never bow to unmerited pressures and threats posed by a few Western countries.

Iran’s permanent representative to the UN issued a statement saying despite all the threats and pressure, the huge turnout of the Iranian nation in the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution attests to the prevailing state of unity and concord in the country.

The huge turnout indicated “the nation’s determination in maintaining national unity … in the realization of political, economic and social developments and particularly in advancing civilian nuclear technology,” read the statement.

“The presence of millions of Iranians in the rallies was a clear manifestation of political power across the international scene,” Khazaee later expounded in an interview with IRNA on Friday.

Rather than clinging to the misguided belief that the Tehran government is disliked and weakened by the opposition, he emphasized, Western officials, particularly those in the US, should open their eyes to the wide-spread support in Iran for state policies.

“The Islamic Republic has now become a powerful and strategic country, where people enjoy a strong sense of unity and solidarity,” said Khazaee. “It is a fact that Western powers must learn to deal with.”

The Iranian offcial also cautioned against the rising tide of anti-Iran propaganda campaign in the West that seeks to portray the Iranian government in a bad light.

Millions of people throughout Iran with many carrying Iranian flags, pictures of the Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Opressed People Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei, and banners in support of the revolution and its late founder, Imam Khomeini, took to the streets on Thursday to celebrate the overthrowing of the ruthless, US-backed Pahlavi monarchy.