Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Xinhua – World News, Tehran, Dec. 2, 2008 — Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Tuesday that “the United States is the main enemy of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the official IRNA news agency reported.

Making the remarks on the thirtieth anniversary of Iran’s Islamic parliament’s (Majlis) set-up at the wake of the country’s Islamic revolution in 1978, Rafsanjani reiterated one of the revolution’s main premises that “the United States is the main enemy of the Islamic Republic of Iran” and “Washington is making great efforts to disturb it.”

He said that the U.S. policies are doomed to failure.
“On the existing problems facing the country, there is a need for consolidation of unity and solidarity among different Iranian groups and individuals,” he added.