Ayatollah Alamolhoda slams French FM's visit to Iran

Rasa – Mashhad’s Friday prayers’ leader has criticised Laurent Fabius, the French foreign minister’s visit to Iran, saying that he has been involved in many crimes against this country since the 1980s.

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Date: 01 August 2015 - 21:34

RNA – Ayatollah Sayyed Ahmad Alamolhoda said that as soon as the JCPOA is signed, Iran’s gates will open and the red carpet will be rolled out for [European] criminals, murderers and pirates from whom we have witnessed hundreds of examples of their crimes over the past 36 years since the Islamic Revolution.

This is far worse than what occurred after the strategic Battle of Uhud, which caused a serious setback for the Prophet Muhammad’s mission, he said.

The member of the Assembly of Experts said that Fabius has been proven as the official responsible for sending HIV-infected blood supplies to Iranian patients with hemophilia during his time in office as prime minister in the 1980s.

As a result of the scandal, approximately 300 already ill Iranians who were also suffering from the effects of the Iran-Iraq War, as well as their subsequent children, became affected with hepatitis and AIDS. Some also died from their illnesses.

In regard to the details of the contaminated blood affair, Ayatollah Alamolhoda said that when this scandal broke, Fabius said that he was not involved, but it was the work of two employees. However, in 1990 a document was uncovered that proved that he was involved.

Fabius, along with former Social Affairs Minister Georgina Dufoix and former Health Minister Edmond Hervé, were charged in 1999 with manslaughter. Fabius and Dufoix were later acquitted.

Fabius representative of Israel in N-talks

The renowned Iranian scholar also noted Fabius’ role in supporting the Zionist regime during Iran’s nuclear negotiations with the P5+1 group of countries, saying that François Hollande, the French president, stated officially that Fabius is not only France’s representative to the P5+1 but is the representative of Israel’s interests in the negotiations.

Ayatollah Alamolhoda stated that Fabius almost walked out of the negotiations during the fifth round of negotiations in Geneva in December 2013 when Israeli prime minister Benyamin Netanyahu called for the end of the negotiations.

He also tried to derail the negotiations during the final stage of the process leading to the 2013 interim deal over disputes over the Arak Heavy Water Reactor, he noted.

His Eminence also explained the hostility of the French government against the Islamic Republic of Iran, saying that France has imposed sanctions on Iran’s motor industry, thus imposing defective and low-quality goods on Iranians, leading to Peugeot cars exploding on Tehran’s highways.

Total, a French company, has also been accused of paying $30 million dollars in bribes to Iranian officials in order to win development rights in two oil fields and a gas field in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Ayatollah Alamolhoda strongly criticized Fabius’ presence in Iran, saying that some people have overlooked all the French crimes against this country and opened its doors to France, knowing they aim at seizing the Iranian market.

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