Tehran's substitute Friday prayers leader Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said US has so far failed to block agreements between Iran and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and it will fail in future, too.
Addressing thousands of worshipers at Tehran University Campus, Ayatollah Khatami said Iran and IAEA have agreed to resolve all remaining problems through a timetable work plan. "IAEA's chief ElBaradei has explicitly said that Iran dossier should go back from UN Security Council to IAEA but the US is doing mischief and is seeking a third UN Security Council resolution against Iran," the Ayatollah said, according to IRNA.
"We tell the world that this is the best evidence showing that the US is not for resolving Iran's nuclear problem but is trying to cause tension while Iran is seeking de-escalation of tension," the major cleric added.
Elsewhere in his sermon, Ayatollah Khatami strongly criticized French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner for his warmongering statements and said he was faced with a string of criticisms in France and abroad and had to apologize for what he said. "This is not the first mistake by these French political nouveau rich. Recently, the French president named Lebanese Hizbollah a terrorist group and later had to retract his irrelevant remarks. The same French foreign minister commented that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is not capable of running his country's affairs and later had to apologize and withdraw his words," Ayatollah Khatami said.
