Thursday, October 13, 2011

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Says West Trying to Spread 'Iranophobia'

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: The West is trying but failing to instil "Iranophobia," Iran's supreme leader said on Thursday in remarks that appeared to be prompted by, but did not directly address, US allegations of a thwarted Tehran-sponsored assassination plot.

"The repeat of ineffective and stupid methods by hapless and distracted policy-makers in the West (to spread) Iranophobia will again bear no result," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in an army base in the western city of Kermanshah, the official IRNA news agency reported.

"They will once again taste failure's bitterness," he said.

Khamenei added that Iran's arch-foe, the United States, was caught in a "quagmire" of its own creation because of its "wrong policies and performance."

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