The following are excerpts from an address by Iranian
Supreme Leader Ali Khameini, as translated by MEMRI-TV. He spoke on Iran’s Channel 1; the video was posted to the
internet on May 21, 2014:
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In the past century or two, as the result of the disgraceful
and threatening phenomenon of colonialism and global arrogance, the world has
suffered great catastrophes. . . . When a nation or a country opposes this ugly
habit, the [West] brings disaster upon them. . . .
This makes global arrogance angry. It becomes confused when
a certain people in an important country, with a very rich history and unique
characteristics, stands up to this ugly phenomenon of dominating and dominated
[countries].
This is what angers the U.S. This is what unites the
arrogant countries against Iran. Perhaps this is what draws the world's nations
to Iran. Perhaps most of those governments that do not dare to oppose the rule
of hegemony themselves are pleased that the Iranian regime opposes it, even if
they do not have the courage to say so.
We see this clearly in our international interactions. Our
enemy's hostility stems from the Iranian regime's opposition to the rule of
hegemony and to the ugly habit of dividing the world into those who dominate
and those who are dominated.
Everything else is nothing but a pretext. Today, the pretext
is the nuclear issue, another day, it is human rights, and some other time, it
will be something else. They want to dissuade the Iranian regime from opposing
the world's aggressive and bribe-taking bullies and oppressors.
Of course, this will not happen. . . . [Iran] will manage to
overcome its problems, to develop, and to increase its presence and its
influence, despite the West. This is what angered them.
They got angry. Let them. In the words of our dear martyr
Beheshti, "Let them die in their anger" . . .
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Iranian
Supreme Leader Khamenei: Iran Makes the West Angry; Let it “Die in its Anger”,
MENRI, Clip 4289.
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