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Substitute Friday prayers leader of Tehran Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said here Friday that the inter-faith conference in New York aimed to normalize ties with Israel, warning that gone is the era of Israel.
Delivering his second Friday prayers sermon, Ayatollah Khatami said, "It is completely obvious that the conference of religions in New York aims to normalize ties with Israel; if not, what's the relation between the occupying regime's president, Shimon Perez, and the Regime's Foreign Minister with the religion so that they would take part in the meeting?"
"All these are for normalization of ties with Israel. They should however know that gone is the era of Israel and such political games," he added.
Switching to recent presidential elections in the US which led to landmark victory of the Democrat Senator Barack Obama, Ayatollah Khatami said message of the elections was hatred of the US President George W. Bush.
He warned Obama that he will face the fate of Bush if follows his wrong way.
"The elections, that were unprecedented over the past 60 years in terms of the US public turnout, has a very clear message if there is any hearing ear. Its clear message is hatred of Bush and the ambitious and arrogant policies of the present US administration.
That's a big no to Bush's administration. We did say and said the right.
Statistics too said that Bush is the bete noire of the world people. There was an opinion poll recently: 70 percent of Europeans, 80 percent of Indonesian people and 90 percent of Egyptian people have voiced resentment of Bush. Their own opinion poll organs say Bush is the most hated president in the US history," he added.
Globally, hatred of Bush was clear but in the US, the hatred was revealed in the ballot boxes, he added.
"Really, the US people saw that Bush had made the US totally bankrupt in the political scene. The US cannot now beat the drum of being a superpower. They have themselves said that gone is the era of being a superpower," he noted.
He added that economically too they have faced bad luck.
"Everyday there is report that this bank and that bank have gone bankrupt. Dlrs 700 billion have thus far been injected to the financial institutions but to no avail. Their economy is still ill and ten million jobless are still left idle. People voted to change.
The 47-year-old successor of Bush should know that he will have the same destiny as that of Bush if decides to follow his path. Bush's successor came on the scene with the slogan of change. The question is what was the source and factor of the slogan?"
He added that the fact is that global conditions dictated change on the US establishment and it was not slogan of a party, rather it was slogan of the US establishment.
"You know the US presidents are not fully in charge. Those are strategists and the political and economic elite that draw up policies," he added.
He said global conditions dictated motto of change on the US establishment because it was revealed that the US has failed in all scenes.
"In the field of fight on terrorism, they say explicitly that they want to come into terms with Taliban. It's evident that campaign against terrorist was a political game. In military domain too, the US war machine has run aground. In Iraq and Afghanistan they have lost their hopes. In occupied Palestine, the US failed to move one step forward and remained completely helpless. The US establishment realized that should the trend continue, it will collapse. So, the US establishment adopted the motto of change. But what was the factor for the change? Undoubtedly, the factor for the change in global conditions was the Islamic Revolution of the Great Iranian people." He said the reason for the change was Iranian people's resistance and guidelines of the father of Islamic Revolution and founder of the Islamic Republic the late Imam Khomeini.
The US started falling since the day the late Imam called the US "Great Satan" and said, "The US cannot do a damn thing".
"We are expecting more than what has happened," Ayatollah Khatami said.
"It will be a foolish thinking if one thinks there will be change in the US policies. There are others behind the stage. Since about 60 years ago, since the presidency of of Eisenhower not a slight change has been made in the US foreign policy. Rule of the game changes. They come on the scene one day with the slogan of change and the other day with the slogan of campaign against terrorism."
He said the US statesmen should know that Iranian people have not changed as long as they have kept their hostile arrogant nature intact.
"Slogans of the nation are the same as before and our nation have not changed. The slogan showing their (Iranians') hatred of the US, i.e. "Down with the US", is still echoing," he concluded.
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