PHOTO: The Tehran Friday Prayer Leader, Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani, on Friday


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Echoing the Supreme Leader, the Tehran Friday Prayer has warned of US “infiltration” of Iran following the July 14 nuclear deal with the 5+1 Powers.

Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani ruled out improved relations with Washington despite the agreement, while pointing to the regime’s ongoing concerns about a revival of the mass protests — “sedition” — that followed the disputed 2009 Presidential election:

The world and the Iranian parliamentarians should know that the US dreams about normalization of ties with Iran as a scheme to infiltrate into the country and implement…the policy of hostility toward Iran and Islam under the guise of smiles.

The Supreme Leader has issued a series of public denunciations of the US, both over its role in the Middle East and its supposed plans to undermine the region. On Wednesday he told an audience in Tehran, “We will enter negotiations…with all countries at various levels — state, tribal, and religious — except for the Great Satan.”

Movahedi Kermani said yesterday that, with the Islamic Republic refusing to compromise with America, Iran’s “divine establishment” will remain while “the Zionist regime of Israel” will be destroyed.

He supported his argument about the US enemy with the claim that the Americans helped develop the Islamic State:

Washington should stop helping the ISIL; the US-led coalition formed against the Takfiri terrorist group is just a lie.

The US claims that by forming the coalition it wants to uproot the terrorism, but it is lying. The US does not intend to destroy the ISIL, it merely wants to administer the terrorist group.


Rouhani: “I Will Not Let Hardliners Damage Iran” by Blocking Nuclear Deal

President Rouhani has held his ground on the July 14 nuclear deal with the 5+1 Powers, saying, “I will not let some hardliners damage the hopes of the nation.”

Rouhani declared the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action was necessary for Iran’s political and economic future:

He continued, “Nobody in the course of history can say that this deal is not consistent w the dignity of #Iranian nation.”

The Government is under growing pressure from critics who are insisting on a formal vote on the deal in Parliament.

See Iran Daily, Sept 9: Arguments Within Regime Over the Nuclear Deal