Senior Cleric: No Change in Iran’s Policy towards US

Tehran’s provisional Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ahmad Khatami underlined that the nuclear agreement between Tehran and the world powers does not mean that Iran should change its policy towards the US.

Addressing a large and fervent congregation of the people on Tehran University campus on Friday, Ayatollah Khatami said, “The US has oppressed the Iranian nation for over 50 years, and our nation are, thus, entitled to the right to chant ‘Down with the US’ even more honorably than before.”

He pointed to the war rhetoric of the US statesmen against Iran, and said, “We do not welcome war and we are not war-mongers either, but if the Americans want to try their chance once again, then they should have no doubt that they will bring in their soldiers on airplanes, but will send them back in coffins to their cities and we will chase the enemy to its soil on our airplanes.”

In relevant remarks earlier this month, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei underlined the nuclear agreement between Tehran and the six world powers (the US, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany) will not change Iran’s policy towards the US.

“In any case the policy of the Iranian nation and the Islamic Republic system visa-vis the US will not change,” Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei said, addressing worshippers in the Eid al-Fitr (marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan) prayers in Tehran.

Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei reiterated that whether the text of the nuclear agreement is ratified by the Iranian parliament or not, Iran will continue supporting the oppressed Palestinian nation, Yemen, Bahrain as well as the nations and governments of Syria and Iraq and the honest warriors of Lebanon and Palestine.

Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei reiterated that Iran’s policy towards the US will never change.

The Supreme Leader pointed to the boastful remarks of the US statesmen and officials in recent days, and said, “The US statesmen and stateswomen are inevitably making boastful remarks these days to resolve their internal problems, but their brags are not real.

Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei said that Islamic Iran will never yield to excessive demands of the enemies while safeguarding its defensive and security capabilities.

Iran and the six world powers struck a deal in Vienna on July 14.

The hitherto elusive agreement was finally nailed down on Tuesday in the ritzy Palais Coburg Hotel in the Austrian capital of Vienna, where negotiators from Iran and the six other countries had recently been spending over two weeks to work out the remaining technical and political issues.

The agreement, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), will be presented to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Monday to adopt a resolution in the following two days to make the JCPOA an official document.