Ayatollah Khatami blasts Cameron’s anti-Iran remarks

Rasa – A senior Iranian cleric has rejected as “sheer lies” recent anti-Iran remarks by British Prime Minister David Cameron, saying the UK has a black record of supporting terrorism.

News ID: 1296

Date: 03 October 2014 - 16:35

RNA – Ayatollah Sayyed Ahmad Khatami, the temporary Friday prayer leader of Tehran, has rejected the recent anti-Iran remarks by the British Prime Minister David Cameron, as “sheer lies,” and saying the UK has a black record of supporting terrorism.

“He (Cameron) falsely accused [us of pursuing non-civilian objectives in] our nuclear program and accused us of supporting terrorism. He falsely accused us of maltreating our people,” Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami told worshippers at the weekly Friday Prayers in Tehran.

During his speech at the UN General Assembly last month, Cameron pointed the finger at Iran for backing terrorism, adding that Tehran and London had “severe disagreements” over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear energy program and its human rights situation.

Ayatollah Khatami praised Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s address at the UN General Assembly, saying “irrational” remarks by the British premier should not overshadow Rouhani’s speech.

His Eminence said the British government had a “black record” in the eyes of the Iranian nation, saying London is a major sponsor of the Israeli regime as well as terrorist groups like the ISIL and the MKO terror grouping. He also called the so-called US anti-ISIL coalition as a “deceptive and hypocritical” coalition which pursues malicious objectives. The cleric said the West created terrorist groups like ISIL as it did before to achieve certain anti-Islamic objectives.

The ISIL controls large swathes of Syria’s northern territory. The group sent its members into neighbouring Iraq in June and seized large parts of land there. The ISIL terrorists have threatened all communities, including Shi’as, Sunnis, Kurds, Christians and Izadi Kurds, in Iraq and have been committing heinous crimes in the areas they have taken.

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