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US Still Wrong About Nukes: Iran's Leader

Khamenei reacts to Obama scrapping missile defense

By the Associated Press

Posted Sep 20, 2009 3:46 PM CDT

(AP) – Iran's supreme leader said today that US officials know they are wrongly accusing Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons. In Iran's first official reaction to the US decision to scrap a European missile intercept system to defend against threats from Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed President Barack Obama's administration is following the same policies as its predecessor.

"The US officials who talk about Iranian missiles and their danger while saying Iran intends to build a nuclear bomb, they know these words are wrong," Khamenei said in remarks broadcast on state-run radio. "Despite its apparent friendly messages and words," he said, the Obama administration is pursuing the same policy of Iran-phobia.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks in front of pictures of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, left, and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks in front of pictures of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, left, and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right.   (Vahid Salemi)
This photo shows Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, giving the presidential decree to the President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his second term.
This photo shows Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, giving the presidential decree to the President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his second term.   (AP Photo/Office of the Supreme Leader)
Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves to the crowd during during a ceremony to commemorate a revered Shiite saint, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, July 6, 2009.
Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves to the crowd during during a ceremony to commemorate a revered Shiite saint, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, July 6, 2009.   (AP Photo/Office of the Supreme Leader)
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COMMENTS
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emptycalm
Sep 21, 2009 1:59 AM CDT
If they wanted a bomb that bad they would have bought one and nuked israel by now. Iran has a history of not fucking with anyone. Why would they start now?
Cat-Lover
Sep 20, 2009 9:05 AM CDT
Somebody has got to take this guy out!

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