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Khatami renews call for 'peace coalition', slams 'aura of terror' |
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| Tehran, Aug 16, IRNA -- President Mohammad Khatami upbraided what he called an 'aura of violence and rage' created after the September 11 terror attack on American landmarks and renewed his call on the world to embrace 'coalition for peace' and dialogue. In a meeting with the President of the Seton Hall University, New Jersey, Monsignor Robert Sheeran and the accompanying delegation on Thursday evening, the Iranian president said that the world today needs dialogue more than any time. "After the September 11 event, it was expected that the world would pay more attention to the idea of coalition for peace as a complement to the idea of dialogue among civilizations," he said of of his own brainchildren, announced as an international theme in 2001 by the United Nations. "Instead of becoming angry, victims of terror and violence must be sympathized with," Khatami said, implicitly criticizing the US for mounting on a self-declared anti-terror campaign. He described terror 'ominous and infamous, saying "terror does not understand location and gender; it is rather a phenomenon rising from despise, discrimination and repression of humans." "Thus, for a fundamental fight, it needs to hit at the causes and hotbeds of terror," Khatami said. |
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