Tehran, 2007 Oct 12, IRNA 
 
Provisional Friday Prayer Leader of Tehran Ayatollah Mohammad Emami-Kashani said in his second sermon here Friday enemies resort to Iran's nuclear program as a pretext, knowing about its peaceful nature.

Addressing thousands of fasting Tehrani worshipers at central campus of Tehran University, Tehran's Friday preacher this week emphasized, "They say Iran should not conquer scientific peaks, and in fact they are opposed to the prospering of our universities' scientific identities."

Pointing out that the global arrogance, and particularly the United States, are terrorists, and provide incentives for crisis making throughout the world, he said, "The are the initiators of all types of corruption, and then launch fully falsified propagation against Iran in a bid to pacify us."

Kashani all the same assured the worshipers, "The Iranian nation would despite all such plots emerge victorious and conquer the peaks of success and prosperity along with its leader."

Elsewhere in his sermon, Ayatollah Emami-Kashani referred to the beginning of the new academic year, including the reopening of the universities, arguing, "The enemies of Islam are aware of the Iranian youth's high status and the Islamic ideology, which is why they will not leave us alone."

He added, "They know if they give us some time to grow at peace we would emerge as our time's great Islamic civilization."

Referring to Iran's great past scientific records, and the resentation of such internationally renowned scientists as Avicenna and Farabi to the world, he said, "Today the conditions are a lot more appropriate for achieving the peaks of scientific success."