De Iraanse leider beschuldigt Bush van haatcampagne

De Opperste Leider Ayatollah Ali de Khamenei beschuldigde V.S. van Iran. President George W. Bush van het proberen om haat tegen Teheran omhoog te ranselen toen hij vorige week het land zei had het gebied „onder de schaduw van een kernholocaust“ gezet.Het westen verdenkt Iran een geheim programma heeft om kernwapens te bouwen. Iran zegt zijn atoomprogramma moet slechts voor machtsgeneratie helpen de economische groei opvoeren en de V.N. verworpen. eisen om zijn gevoeligste werk te stoppen.

Iran’s IRNA state news agency quoted Khamenei as saying Bush had made comments that were “hateful, arrogant and violent”.

“The Iranian nation has resisted and it will resist … It will never bow to any coercion in the nuclear issue and in other matters,” said Khamenei, the Islamic Republic’s top authority.

The U.N. Security Council has imposed two rounds of sanctions on Iran since December and the United States has said it will push for a third unless Tehran stops enriching uranium.

Enrichment is the part of Iran’s programme that most worries the West because it can be used to make fuel for nuclear power plants or material for warheads.

The United States has said it wants the standoff to be ended through diplomacy but has not ruled out military action if that fails. U.S. officials have said they might label Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a foreign terrorist group.

“The enemies have turned up the level of threats but they should know that an organisation like the Revolutionary Guards that enjoys popular support cannot be destroyed,” said newly appointed Guards commander Mohammad Ali Jafari.

Iran has dismissed U.S. threats, saying U.S. power in the Middle East is waning, and has called for Washington to pull its troops out of Iraq and the region. 

“We recommend they … leave the region as soon as possible and keep their relations with Islam and regional states at a distance,” Jafari was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency in his first public remarks since his appointment.

Khamenei said he had appointed Jafari on Saturday to head the Guards, an ideologically motivated force that sees itself as the guardian of the Islamic Republic. The Guards have a separate command structure to the regular military.

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