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| Iran FM: Perfidious Albion accomplice in post-vote killings |
| 2009-08-01 |
| Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki says Western countries - especially Britain - interfered in Iran's affairs and share the blame for the post-vote casualties in Iran. "Britain's policies towards Iran have been hostile and meddlesome, and of course they were defeated in the face the Iranian nation's resistance," Mottaki said during a pre-sermon address to worshippers gathered for the Friday Prayers at Tehran University. "In these [post-election] events, not all Western countries behaved the same, and it is Britain that has the worst record. It interferes the most in the internal affairs of other countries and it still entertains fantasies of the Great British Empire," Mottaki elaborated, as reported by ILNA. In an apparent reference to the BBC, Mottaki alleged that Britain interfered in Iran in the aftermath of the disputed presidential election, "through television channels, which taught ways of creating disturbance, and preparing explosives, and this means that they share the responsibility for the post-election events and killings." He said that he had spoken on the telephone with Carl Bildt, the Foreign Minister of Sweden, which is the current holder of the rotating European Union (EU) presidency. "I said that the EU is going through a transitory period. After following US policies unilaterally, it has now adopted certain anti-Iran policies and it must reconsider these," Mottaki described his telephone discussion. |
| Posted by:Fred |