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Tehran, July 17, IRNA - Secretary General of the Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF) Mohammad-Reza Khatami here on Wednesday condemned recent statements by US President George W. Bush.
Khatami, who was addressing a press conference along with two other senior IIPF members, said that the statement is condemned if it was aimed at harming the reforms movement and voice sympathy with those who link the reforms front to outsiders.
He said one should consider whether such statement is a prelude to a change US government policy or is aimed to sow discord in Iran.
He added that no country is entitled to interfere in Iran's internal affairs. "We do not interfere in the affairs of other country and will not allow others to interfere in Iran," he declared.
"Our main policy is to confront foreign threats and isolate US war-mongers; and for the same reason, we should maintain our relations with other countries and even non-belligerent forces in America," added the deputy speaker of the Majlis.
He said Iran pursues a policy of detente and further coordination within the May 23 Front and preventing discord and disorder.
Khatami condemned military attacks, sanctions and pressures on nations and said cooperation between Iraqi political groups and foreign governments is their own business.
Elsewhere, Khatami said reforms would move ahead in Iran at full speed without interruption.
In his written statement on Friday, Bush had said, "As Iran's people move towards a future defined by greater freedom, they will have no better friend than the United States of America."
He also called for removal of existing obstacles hindering reforms in Iran.
President Mohammad Khatami also recently castigated 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."
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