Ahmadinejad: Presence of foreigners in region would damage regional friendship
Bandar Abbas, Hormuzgan prov, 2008 Feb 20, IRNA
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that the Iranian nation believes that presence of foreign forces in the region would damage regional security, tranquility and friendship.
Addressing a large group of local residents gathered at the city's main stadium, he said, "The powerful nation of Iran is the friend and brother to all regional nations both in happiness and difficulties." Those who entered the Persian Gulf region made attempts to create discord among the regional states and made the region insecure, he said urging foreign forces to leave the region soon.
By waging wars in different parts of the world, the bullying powers try to sell their weapons, the president said adding that they try to expand their hegemony throughout the globe.
Elsewhere in his speech, the president condemned brutality of the Zionist regime in the occupied territories and its targeted assassination of leaders of Palestine resistance movement fighting to evict Israel from Palestine.
The United Nations has condemned Tel Aviv regime for its targeted assassination of Palestinian leaders.
The UN said that Israel, however, has an occupying status in the territory of Palestine and is responsible for targeted assassination of Palestinians.
The Iranian nation will not let any power violate rights of the regional states, he reiterated.
Accompanied by several members of his cabinet, the president arrived here Wednesday morning starting his fifth provincial tour.
|
