Provisional Friday Prayer Leader of Tehran said Friday anyone that would under prevailing conditions speak of entering talks with the US is deviating from late Imam Khomeini's exalted ideals.
Addressing thousands of Tehrani worshipers at Central Campus of Tehran University, Hojjatoleslam Ahmad Khatami added, "The late grand Imam's stand on refraining from entering talks with the Americans was an ideal of the Islamic Revolution."
According to IRNA, Tehran's interim Friday preacher added in his second sermon, "That carnivorous wolf is not of the type to enter negotiations. America is only after securing its own hegemony." Khatami reiterated, "The Supreme Leader denounced entering talks with the United States last week, even on Iraq, and that stand of the Supreme Leader is exactly in line with the grand late Imam's relative stands."
He further stressed, "Let us not forget that the late Imam said that America is the Great Satan, wishing for the severing of ties with that country."
The cleric added, "I ask those that promote entering negotiations with the Americans whether intrigues of the United States (against Iran) have got any milder during the course of the past 27 years, or not?"
