TEHRAN – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khameneidenounced the US for its fake concerns about human rights, saying one ofthe Islamic Republic’s main policies is to discredit the Americangovernment which is even worse than Daesh (ISIL) terrorists.link>
One of Iran’s fundamental polices is to “stand against cruelty andcorruption at the international level and to discredit it,” AyatollahKhamenei said in a gathering of Iranian Air Force and Air Defense personnelin Tehran on Thursday.
“Today, the US government is the cruelest and most merciless system in theworld, which is even worse than the savage Daesh members,” the Leader added.
Making a reference to the US president’s admission that Washington itselfhas created Daesh and to the American support for it, Ayatollah Khameneisaid the notorious group has probably received training in violent andbarbaric methods by savage US contractors such as Blackwater.
The Leader also called for efforts to give people the facts and discreditthe US government that proclaims to be advocating human rights and even therights of animals in spite of all those cruel measures.
Ayatollah Khamenei further referred to the US support for 70 years ofsuppression of the Palestinian nation and also its backing for the killingof Yemeni people as flagrant examples of American cruelty, denouncingWashington’s silence on the daily bombardment of Yemen’s infrastructures byUS allies that employ American weapons.
Slamming Washington’s shameless move to accuse Iran of sending missiles toYemen by displaying a missile debris at the UN, Ayatollah Khamenei wonderedhow it could be possible to send missiles to Yemen when the people of thecountry are under blockade.
Elsewhere, the Leader referred to the upcoming anniversary of victory ofthe Islamic Revolution and predicted that Iranians would mark this year’sanniversary with more passionate demonstrations given the hostile commentsmade by American and non-American politicians and the feeling that theenemy is waiting in ambush.
Iranians are going to hold nationwide rallies on February 11 to mark the39th anniversary of the victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
In comments in June 2017, Ayatollah Khamenei said the US is opposed to theprinciple of Iran’s independence, arguing that even if Iran were governedby a non-religious and non-revolutionary but an independent establishment,the US would again oppose it.
The US “should know that the Islamic Republic will not abandon stances suchas countering cruelty and defending Palestine, and will not abandon itsattempt to restore the rights of the nation,” Imam Khamenei said at thetime.