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Iran: We Bear Scars From Power-Mad US
Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:00:30


Iran says it developed missiles only to 'defend' against further attacks similar to that of the 8-year US-sponsored war on the country.

"Iran has developed its missile capabilities to defend itself," said Brigadier General Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar. "Our missiles are only a threat to invaders."

He was referring to White House reasoning that it needs to site interceptor missiles in Poland and an anti-missile radar system in the neighboring Czech Republic to ward off ballistic missile attacks by 'rogue states such as Iran'.

"Building a missile defense shield can only be justified in the context of protecting the world from the US and Israel as they are the ones who threaten the world with nuclear strikes and missile wars," the Brigadier General said Monday.

The Iranian official then reasoned that Washington is not worthy of trust because of its long history of advancing its interests at the expense of others with its 'satanic policies of world domination'.

"To justify its illegal presence in the Middle East and to gain unquestionable influence on Europe, America engineers crises and manipulates public opinion through psywar and propaganda," he explained.

Giving several examples of such policies, Mohammad-Najjar suggested that the international community work together to achieve 'sustainable peace and stability through understanding and wholehearted cooperation'.

"The Iraqi invasion and the humanitarian crisis in the war-battered country, the Lebanese crisis and the Israeli atrocities against the Palestinians are all sanctified by Washington echelons in line with their desire for political domination of the world."

"Such wrongdoings should wizen regional and European states, so they avoid the trap of Washington's satanic policies," advised the defense minister.

He said as Tehran 'bases its defense diplomacy as well as its foreign policy on avoiding such traps', Washington feels the need to oppose Iran.

He pointed to the 8-year Iraq-Iran War, in which Washington is widely believed to have provided the Ba'athist regime with weapons of mass destruction as well as vital intelligence in the hope of toppling the Iranian government.

"We need to defend against national security threats and our missile program was launched in this regard," he said.

MJ/AA

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