Rafsanjani says Bush's remarks on Iran interventionist

  
 

 

  
 

 
 

        

  
           Tehran, July 15, IRNA -- the Failure of US policies to disturb social order in Iran on the anniversary of the July 9 unrest prompted the US President George W. Bush to make interventionist remarks against Iran, a senior Iranian official said.
         Expediency Council (EC) Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani told a group of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) commanders here on Monday that the US efforts and conspiracies have all failed to make Iranian students and youth deviate from the path of Islamic Revolution.
         "As Iran's people move towards a future defined by greater freedom, they will have no better friend than the United States of America," Bush said on Friday.
         He also called for removal of existing obstacles hindering reforms in Iran.
         Rafsanjani criticized the US government for its explicit intervention in Iran's internal affairs and said refusal of even a single political faction to accept the US support shows the defeat of Washington's policies towards Iran and the Americans' wrong image of Iran's internal conditions.
         He also criticized "foolish" views of certain Iranian political figures and groups, saying that under the conditions when Americans use all pressure levers to attain their goals, one should be prudent and employ all facilities to confront the enemy. He also cautioned against making any rash emotional decisions.
         President Mohammad Khatami on Sunday castigated President George W. Bush's interventionist statement about Iran in which he expressed solidarity with a small number of demonstrators who staged protest in front of Tehran University on Tuesday.
         President Khatami said that the Iranian nation and government will not give in to foreign threats and will strongly proceed with its principles of independence, progress, morality and freedom.
         Speaking at a cabinet meeting, President Khatami said, "we advise  those who are pursuing war-mongering policy under the influence of certain lobbies, to get rid of the false interpretation of situation in Iran and apologize to the Iranian nation and government for the misdeeds of the past."
         Elsewhere in his remarks, Rafsanjani touched on more than two decades of the captivity of four Iranian nationals by Israel and urged the international community to clarify their fate.
         He said the Zionist regime and world mass media have been making hue and cry about a pilot whose plane crashed during a bombing mission in Lebanon but have kept mum towards the fate of four Iranians, whose fate is still unknown and are believed to have been taken hostage by Israel.
 

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