Khatami tells neighbors not to fear 'a powerful Iran'

Islamic Republic News Agency:

President Mohammad Khatami offered assuring words to its neighbors, saying they do not need to fear a 'powerful Iran'.

"Iran does not want progress for initiating aggression and history has shown that we have never been an aggressor," he told Azerbaijan's Defense Minister Safar Abiyev who is a here on an official visit. READ MORE

Khatami described the presence of foreign troops as 'a threat to the security and peace of regional countries and an affront to them', in an apparent reference to mushrooming US military bases in the former Soviet republics. ...