Khamnei’s newspaper: “Blair is delusional”

Iran Press News: Translation by Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi

Khamnei’s newspaper, in it’s Thursday issue, attacked Blair for his comments on Tuesday and said: “Despite his own confessions, it is bizarre that the Prime Minister of England is incapable of comprehending the very obvious fact that he cannot just change the regime from within Iran, just because he feels like it. It become more clear to us that westerners reason like cows. Britain’s Prime Minister admitted in front of the parliamentary commission of his own country that there are no means to overthrow the Islamic regime and that he must use military force. He has accused our regime of not cooperating with the IAEA, supporting and financing terrorism and meddling in Iraq; he has also specified that Iran is a powerful country which owns a great deal of the world’s energy resources and that if it ends up with nuclear arms, the world’s peace will be threatened. Blair’s confessions clearly show that the Islamic regime cannot be made to surrender and his claims that the regime meddles in Iraq only means that we (the Islamic regime) have managed to conquer the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people. And instead of accusing us of supporting terrorism, he really ought to be saying that we support liberation movements. Where Blair is concerned we don’t need to say much as the people of England already call him ‘Bush’s Poodle’. He’s in dreamland!“