|
Iran: No differences between Ahmadinejad and Khamenei - Mohaddessin |
|
|
|
|
Monday, 19 December 2005 |
 Middle East Online - Iranian opposition official says mullahs are
trying to expand their rule beyond Iran's borders to thwart their
overthrow.
PARIS - Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's remarks at the summit
of the Organization of Islamic Conference and his call for the
destruction of Israel and the formation of a global Islamic Empire is
neither temporary nor a propaganda ploy, according to a ranking
official of the Iranian opposition in exile.
Mohammad Mohadessin, chairman of the Foreign Affairs committee of the
opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran said in a press
conference held Friday in Paris: "Faced with the demand by some 95
percent of Iranians for regime change, the mullahs are trying to expand
their rule beyond Iran's borders to thwart their overthrow. To this
end, several days after assuming office, Ahmadinejad said: "The waves
of a new Islamic Revolution will soon spread to the entire world.
According to Mohadessin, contrary to what some believe in the West,
there are no differences between Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ali
Khamenei. "All that Ahmadinejad said represented the views of the
regime in its totality and Khamenei," he added, reading parts of what
he called a confidential internal report used to brief senior
government officials. It said: "Prior to the President's trip to Saudi
Arabia, the president's advisors, acting on guidelines from the leader,
prepared his speech and the references to Israel and the Jews.
Ahmadinejad personally took the speech to His Eminence the Leader who
corrected and approved of the speech."
The report went on: "Our stance has some adverse repercussions and some
benefits. Among Islamic societies, Iran would be recognized as the
standard bearer of defending Muslims. It paves our way in Iraq.
Domestically, it strengthens the morale of the Bassijis (government
militia formed by the revolutionary guards) and revolutionaries. It
solidifies our ranks and heartens fundamentalist forces. Naturally,
Western countries will not remain indifferent toward us and will
condemn us in the United Nations. But experience has shown that they
would ultimately retreat. The US is having a lot of problems in Iraq,
which give it less opportunity to focus on the Islamic Republic in a
concrete way."
Mohadessin said that Iran's strategy to dominate Islamic world was
going through dominating Iraq. "For the regime, Iraq is the gateway to
the Islamic World. The most senior Revolutionary Guards commanders and
thousands of members are focused on Iraq. They want to set up a puppet
Islamic regime in Iraq. The regime has allocated billions of dollars to
this mission. It has dispatched thousands of clerics to Iraq. It has
been paying thousands of operatives on a monthly basis." he added.
The opposition figure said: "Iranian leaders are discussing among
themselves about "Iraqi opportunity" as a historical opportunity. This
opportunity encouraged them to call publicly for elimination of Israel
and establishing a global Islamic rule."
He urged "negotiations with the clerical regime over the nuclear
projects or human rights to be abandoned, and the latter's nuclear
file, export of terrorism and fundamentalism as well as human rights
abuses be referred to the UN Security Council, with comprehensive
sanctions imposed against it."
|
English
Francais
Deutsch
Italiano
العربيّة
