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Cleric: Iran Supports Regional Nations' Right of Self-Determination
18:46 | 2013-02-15
TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran's provisional Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah
Ahmad Khatami said Iran believes that all the regional nations,
including Bahrain and Palestine, should enjoy the right to determine
their own fates.
Addressing a large and fervent congregation of worshipers here in
Tehran on Friday, Ayatollah Khatami reiterated that Iran believes in
the rule of the people, be it in the occupied Palestinian territories
or Bahrain.
"In Syria likewise, every Syrian should have a vote. The US and the
European Union have been exporting terrorists to Syria for two years;
however, Syrian-Syrian talks are the only solution to the Syrian
problem,"
He pointed to a recent report by the UN Human Rights High Commission
indicating that 100 people have been killed in Bahrain and 1,600 are
in prisons, and said, "People of Bahrain have a logical demand; why
does the government not consider the demand?"
Earlier this month, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad underlined
that the Syrian people are the only ones who have the right to
determine their own fate.
"Our efforts are aimed at making the Syrian groups close and
harbingering compromise among them, holding free and fair elections,
so that that the nation would decide about its fate all by itself,"
Ahmadinejad said an interview with Egypt's Nile TV.
"The prevailing conditions in Syria bother us, because regardless of
who gets killed, they are all Syrian people," he added.
"In Bahrain, too, we pursue the same policy and we have told them to
sit and come to terms with each other and hold free and fair
elections," Ahmadinejad said at the time.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 with organized
attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border
guards being reported across the country.
Hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have
been killed, when some protest rallies turned into armed clashes.
The government blames outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups
for the deaths, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from
abroad.
In October 2011, calm was eventually restored in the Arab state after
President Assad started a reform initiative in the country, but
Israel, the US and its Arab allies are seeking hard to bring the
country into chaos through any possible means. Tel Aviv, Washington
and some Arab capitals have been staging various plots in the hope of
increasing unrests in Syria.
18:46 | 2013-02-15
TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran's provisional Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah
Ahmad Khatami said Iran believes that all the regional nations,
including Bahrain and Palestine, should enjoy the right to determine
their own fates.
Addressing a large and fervent congregation of worshipers here in
Tehran on Friday, Ayatollah Khatami reiterated that Iran believes in
the rule of the people, be it in the occupied Palestinian territories
or Bahrain.
"In Syria likewise, every Syrian should have a vote. The US and the
European Union have been exporting terrorists to Syria for two years;
however, Syrian-Syrian talks are the only solution to the Syrian
problem,"
He pointed to a recent report by the UN Human Rights High Commission
indicating that 100 people have been killed in Bahrain and 1,600 are
in prisons, and said, "People of Bahrain have a logical demand; why
does the government not consider the demand?"
Earlier this month, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad underlined
that the Syrian people are the only ones who have the right to
determine their own fate.
"Our efforts are aimed at making the Syrian groups close and
harbingering compromise among them, holding free and fair elections,
so that that the nation would decide about its fate all by itself,"
Ahmadinejad said an interview with Egypt's Nile TV.
"The prevailing conditions in Syria bother us, because regardless of
who gets killed, they are all Syrian people," he added.
"In Bahrain, too, we pursue the same policy and we have told them to
sit and come to terms with each other and hold free and fair
elections," Ahmadinejad said at the time.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 with organized
attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border
guards being reported across the country.
Hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have
been killed, when some protest rallies turned into armed clashes.
The government blames outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups
for the deaths, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from
abroad.
In October 2011, calm was eventually restored in the Arab state after
President Assad started a reform initiative in the country, but
Israel, the US and its Arab allies are seeking hard to bring the
country into chaos through any possible means. Tel Aviv, Washington
and some Arab capitals have been staging various plots in the hope of
increasing unrests in Syria.