AFP, 24 August 2008 () – Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday praised the country’s government for resisting international pressure on the Islamic republic to halt its controversial nuclear programme.
“Some domineering countries and their worthless followers want to get their own way with the Iranian nation, but the nation, the president and the government have stood up to them,” he was quoted by state television as saying.
“Adopting an aggressive spirit against world bullies is a sign of the government’s loyalty to revolutionary slogans and discourse,” it quoted him as saying in a meeting with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his cabinet.