Rasa – Ayatollah Khatami stated that compromise, weakness and retreat have always been followed by humiliation and added that during the past 37 years since the victory of the Islamic Revolution, the many blessings and benefits that Iran’s has achieved have been due to its resistance and not from negotiations and compromise.

Rasa – Mentioning that negotiating with the US is a great mistake, he said: “Imam Khomeini said that if the US is satisfied with you, you should know that you have distracted from the path of Islam."