Ayatollah Ali Khamene’i, supreme jurist-ruler of Iran:
“Killing of people, in any place and with any kind of weapons, including atomic bombs, long-range missiles, biological or chemical weopons, passenger or war planes, carried out by any organization, country or individuals is condemned. ... It makes no difference whether such massacres happen in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Qana, Sabra, Shatila, Deir Yassin, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq or in New York and Washington.” Islamic Republic News Agency, September 16, 2001, http://www.irna.com/en/hphoto/010916000000.ehp.shtml
President Muhammad Khatami of Iran:
“[T]he September 11 terrorist blasts in America can only be the job of a group that have voluntarily severed their own ears and tongues, so that the only language with which they could communicate would be destroying and spreading death.” Address to the United Nations General Assembly, November 9, 2001, http://www.president.ir/cronicnews/1380/8008/800818/800818.htm#b3
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Just so you know, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 I saved all the responses of all the world's majority Muslim states and put this data online at: http://iir.internetactivist.org/020.html I save all the sources and URLs, though of course most of links are bad today. Beyond Iran, the responses and related stories from 53 other majority Muslim states.
Here is more on the Iranian response:
"On behalf of the Iranian government and the nation, I condemn the hijacking attempts and terrorist attacks on public centers in American cities which have killed a large number of innocent people," President Khatami said in reaction to the worst attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor.
"My deep sympathy goes out to the American nation, particularly those who have suffered from the attacks and also the families of the victims," he said, noting, "terrorism is doomed and the international community should stem it and take effective measures in a bid to eradicate it." - Khatami added that the Islamic Republic of Iran is treading a road to uproot terrorism and to this end, he noted, it will spare no efforts.
Other Stories:
“Iranians Honor U.S. with Moment of Silence” (NY Post)
http://www.nypost.com/sports/2125.htm
“Khatami Condemns ‘Terrorist’ Attacks on U.S. Targets (People’s Daily, Iran)
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200109/12/eng20010912_80080.html
“US calls Iran’s response ‘positive’” (Economic Times)
http://www.economictimes.com/today/16poli05.htm
“Iran changes tack in support of US” (Financial Times)
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3X7E08MRC&live=true&tagid=ZZZINS5VA0C&subheading=middle%20east%20and%20africa
“Terror attacks transform U.S. image in Iran’s media” (Gulf News)
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=26528
“Powell sees hope in Iran, Syria response to attack” (Reuters)
Sorry, the link to the main page is: http://iir.internetactivist.org/
IA -
thanx for the good info!
Steve J.
If you think the first quote there is an olive branch, you need to improve your ability to read between the lines.
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