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| Iran |
| Supreme leader says Iran happy about ouster of Saddam |
| 2003-04-11 |
| Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Friday said Iranians, like the Iraqis, are happy to see Saddam Hussein ousted, but they strongly condemn the killing of Iraqi civilians by the US-British troops. Ayatollah Khamenei, addressing thousands of "Yeah, buddy! We didn't like that sucker one little bit. Not that we were able to do anything about him. It was just so much easier to beat up our own civilians than it was to fight The Fourth Largest Army in the World™, y'know?" Ayatollah Khamenei also strongly condemned the killing of Iraqi civilians by US-British troops, stressing that the world would never forget such atrocities. He said the Islamic Republic sympathizes with the Iraqi nation for US crimes, adding that the US and Britain had violated the very basic right of the Iraqi people to live by attacking civilians. "Yeah. We wouldn't want to see anything similar happen in Iran..." Ayatollah Khamenei criticized US plans to install a military government in Iraq, stressing that Iran considered those plans as an aggression against the dignity of Islam and the Muslim world. He also called the US-British ambitious plans to share Iraq's resources as a big mistake and a reactionary step toward the early decades of colonialism. "I mean, the Iraqis were incapable of governing themselves without using sharp instruments and explosives, but that's no reason for outsiders to come in and try to civilize them..." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |