Imam Khamenei: US Will Pay Price for Syria Venture
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Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei warned the US against attacking Syria, iterating that Washington will certainly pay the price for such a venture.
Addressing members of the Assembly of Experts in Tehran on Thursday, Ayatollah Khamenei said "We believe that the Americans are committing a folly and mistake in Syria and will accordingly take the blow and definitely suffer."
Imam Khamenei accentuated "the main objective of the global arrogance is to dominate the Middle East, with "Israel" in the saddle, controlling everything.
"The goal of the recent issues regarding Syria, which started under the pretext of chemical weapons, is also the same, but the Americans are trying through rhetoric and word-manipulation to pretend that they are entering this issue for a humane goal."
Ayatollah Imam Khamenei, however, stressed that that US politicians do not care about humanitarian issues at all.
"Americans are making humanitarian claims at a time when their track record includes [the atrocities at] Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons, silence over Saddam's use of chemical weapons in Halabja and Iranian cities, as well as the massacre of innocent people of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq."
Furthermore, Imam Khamenei pointed out that what is going on in the region "is indeed the reaction of the global arrogance, led by the US, to the Islamic Awakening."
"The presence of the global arrogance in the region is [based on] aggression, bullying and avarice, and is aimed at crushing any resistance against this presence. The arrogance front, however, has not been and will not be able to eliminate this resistance [front]," the Leader added.
Imam Khamenei referred to the ongoing turmoil in Egypt, noting that if Egypt had stood up against "Israel" and had not fallen for US promises, the deposed Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak would not have been freed from prison and those elected by the Egyptian people put behind the bars and tried.
Source: Press TV
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