How history proves US animosity with Iranians

Iran-US hostility dates back to the US-backed 1953 coup in Iran and before when Iran declared nationalization of its oil industry.

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei made the remarks on Sunday, speaking to thousands of school and university students on the eve of the National Student Day.

He said that the US has used whatever and whoever at his disposal to hit Iranians.

In the chain of US crimes, both before and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the US has done its best to hurt Iranians that had cut the hands of the US off Iranian natural resources.

Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq was the man who nationalized the Iranian oil industry – a hard blow to UK and US interests in Iran that had the potential to go beyond the borders of Iran and endanger their interests in the whole region or even the entire world.

In 1953, the Iranian democratically-elected prime minister was toppled in a US-UK-led coup.

UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s government desperately tried "to restore their stake in Iran's petroleum industry by virtually any available means, including military action,” wrote Malcolm Byrne of the National Security Archive and Tulane that plotted a coup to oust Mossadeq from premiership.

Following the coup, the US reinstated the shah to throne in Iran and helped him resists the will of the Iranian people.

The US support emboldened the shah to massacre the people that were revealed after his removal from power in different occasions in different cities.

But the chain of unrest eventually led to the Islamic Revolution under leadership of Imam Khomeini in 1979.

After the Revolution, due to the US animosities and attempts to hurt the people and Revolution, some Iranian students stormed and seized control of the US embassy in Iran on 4 November 1979.

On 22 September 1980 Iraq, under Saddam, invaded Iran. With the military and intelligence support of the US and other Western powers, as well as certain Arab countries in the region, for Iraq, the war went on for eight years. However, they gained nothing. But the war killed hundreds of thousands of people and left thousands of fatally and irremediably injured soldiers and even civilians, including children. With the green light from the US, Iraq repeatedly used chemical weapons against Iranian border cities.

The Iraqi chemical warfare and war crimes faced a blind eye by the international community thanks to US secret lobbying.

In the last days of the US decided to enter the war in favor of Iraq. The USS Vincennes warship targeted Iran Air passenger flight 655 bound to Dubai from Tehran, murdering all the 290 people on board, including 66 children.

Iran and the international community got entangled in a stand-off on nuclear program for 10 years.

The US and the European states including Russia ans China passed a resolution at the United Nations Security Council imposing sanctions on Iran.

Iran declared time and again that its nuclear program is civilian and that Iran does not want to produce atomic bomb, the propaganda campaign escalated by the US over Iran's nuclear program.

Iran signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with the five UN Security Council members plus Germany, which took effect on  January 1, 2015. It was a 159-page agreement to downsize its nuclear program in return for lifting the UN sanctions.

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei issued a religious edict (Fatwa) prohibiting nuclear bomb, saying that Islam forbids weapons of mass destruction.

Soon after Donald Trump became the US president from the Republican Party, the US Administration announced its withdrawal from the JCPOA and restored the sanctions which had been lifted by UN Security Council Resolution 2231 endorsing the JCPOA.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif protested to the US Administration over violating the International Law obliging the Governments to abide by their Agreements and settlement of international disputes by negotiations.

Zarif said that the US Administration perpetrated "Economic Terrorism" by restoring the sanctions on Iran.

The US hostility toward Iranians still remained unabated despite the breakthrough made by the JCPOA.

Written by: Hossein Abolqasemi, IRNA English desk staff writer 

Nation Shatters U.S. Dream of Return to Iran

 

TEHRAN (Kayhan Intl.) -- Thousands of Iranians chanted "Death to America” near the old U.S. embassy on Monday, the 40th anniversary on the takeover of the spying mission, with the country’s army chief comparing the United States with a poisonous scorpion intent on harming Iran.

Crowds packed the streets around the former mission, dubbed the "den of spies” after Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Students stormed the embassy soon after the fall of the U.S.-backed shah, and 52 Americans were held there for 444 days. 

The U.S. and Israeli flags and effigies of President Donald Trump were set ablaze during marches and rallies that were held in some 1,000 communities across the country, Iranian media said.

"Our fight with America is over our independence, over not submitting to bullying, over values, beliefs and our religion,” army chief Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi said in a speech at the rally outside the former embassy.

"They (Americans) will continue their hostilities, like the proverbial poisonous scorpion whose nature it is to sting and cannot be stopped unless it is crushed,” Mousavi said.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Sunday renewed a ban on talks with the United States. "Those who believe that negotiations with the enemy will solve our problems are 100% wrong,” he said.

Meanwhile, Iran’s parliament gave initial approval to a measure requiring schoolbooks to inform students about "America’s crimes”. Lawmakers also chanted "Death to America”.

Relations between the two countries have reached a crisis over the past year since U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned a 2015 pact between Iran and world powers under which it accepted curbs to its nuclear program in return for lifting sanctions.

The United States has reimposed sanctions aimed at halting all Iranian oil exports, saying it seeks to force it to negotiate to reach a wider deal.

General Mousavi slammed the idea of interacting with the United States as a ruse. Protesters held yellow placards saying "The illusion of U.S. return to Iran cannot be realized," referring to Ayatollah Khamenei's Sunday speech which warned against Washington gaining a foothold.

Words like negotiation are a "gift wrapping ... hiding the discourse of submission and defeat," Mousavi said, adding that the only way forward is "to maintain the revolutionary spirit through prudence and obeying the leader."

Replica missiles and the same type of air defense battery used to shoot down a U.S. drone in June were put on display outside the former embassy turned museum in Tehran.

Iran unveiled new anti-American murals on the walls of the former embassy on Saturday with stark images of a crumbling Statue of Liberty, a downed U.S. drone and skulls floating in a sea of blood.

At the end of their rallies outside the U.S. embassy in Tehran, protesters issued a statement, branding Washington "deceitful" and "mankind's biggest enemy."

The statement called the takeover of the embassy a "genius" and "revolutionary" move that needed to be discussed in universities and schools to familiarize the youths with America's atrocities against Iran.

"We still view the declining and collapsing America as the number one enemy of the mankind," the statement noted, adding both the U.S. and its European allies are "untrustworthy."

They also condemned the "child murdering" regime of Israel as well as the Al Saud regime for their attempts to sow division in the Islamic world.

The demonstrators further reiterated their support for the people of Palestine in the face of Israel's ongoing occupation of their lands.

Finally, they supported the Houthi movement's fight against Saudi Arabia's deadly war and expressed solidarity with the people of Bahrain and Nigeria, in the struggle against their governments.

U.S. on Downward Spiral, But Resistance Thriving

IRGC Chief Says as Iran Unveils ‘Den of Spies’ Murals

TEHRAN (Kayhan Intl) -- Iran on Saturday unveiled new murals on the walls of the former U.S. embassy as Tehran prepares to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the capture of the "den of spies.”

The message of the paintings is one of a violent U.S. that is thirsty for war and bent on tightening its grip on the world, yet weakening despite its military might.

The new murals — mainly painted in white, red and blue, the colors of the U.S. flag — were unveiled by Maj. Gen. Hussein Salami, the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), at the former mission turned museum.

One of them showed a crumbling Statue of Liberty, its right torch-bearing arm having broken off.

Another depicted the triangle of the Eye of Providence, the symbol used on the back of the U.S. dollar bill, in a sea of blood in which skulls are floating.

A third showed the American Global Hawk drone that was shot down by Iran in June over the Strait of Hormuz, with bats flying out of it.

One of the other murals featured the Great Seal of the United States with a Star of David in it. Instead of an olive branch and arrows, the eagle is clutching bullets and syringes in his talons.

Next to it another work showed an Iran Air plane that was shot down by an American warship over the Persian Gulf on July 3, 1988, with white doves flying out of it.

As many as 290 people were killed in the criminal act which Washington has called a "mistake” and for which Iran has for years demanded an apology.

During his speech, General Salami reiterated Iran’s grievances against the U.S.

He said the United States is the only country to have used nuclear weapons, twice in Japan in 1945, and yet is blocking other countries, especially Iran, from benefiting from a civil nuclear program.

He also said that Washington is lying when it claims to support human rights and democracy, adding it backs nearly "all dictators” on Earth.

Tehran is preparing to mark on Monday the 40th anniversary of the embassy takeover by Iranian students.

On November 4, 1979, less than nine months after the toppling of Iran’s American-backed shah, students overran the complex to demand the United States hand over the ousted ruler after he was admitted to a U.S. hospital.

Tensions have escalated again between the two countries ever since U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal last year and reimposed unilateral sanctions.

General Salami said the United States has for decades been stuck in "a downward spiral" and its decades-long failure to score a political victory proves that the global resistance front is growing.

"For years, the Americans have not been able to strike a balance between the costs and the outcomes of their measures, even in the economic field. They are stuck in a downward spiral and the world has for decades and years witnessed no recording of a political victory for them," he said.

On the contrary, he added, the resistance is thriving and actively expanding its borders.

The IRGC chief said Washington has played "either directly or indirectly" the main role in all major wars across the Muslim world in the past four decades.

The U.S. has been the world's largest arms exporter and its interventions have killed a total of 8.5 million people around the globe, he noted, saying America is the first regime which obtained weapons of mass destruction and the only country that used them twice.

"The U.S. speaks of human rights while it disregards these same rights in all parts of the world and violates them, like attacks on wedding ceremonies in Afghanistan and overnight raids on the homes of the people of Iraq," the IRGC chief said, naming the notorious prisons of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib as more examples of America's human rights violations.

The U.S. regime, he pointed out, speaks of freedom and democracy while all dictators across the globe are its "chess pieces."

"In Afghanistan, they (the Americans) created terrorist groups but they were forced to counter them. They themselves nurtured Daesh leader and were forced to eliminate him," he said.

"The world has become bigger than the U.S., and the U.S. is no longer the first in anything," Salami emphasized, adding "power, politics, logic and geography have been distributed and today's world is no longer a power hierarchy ruled by a government at the top."

He also said that in addition to America's enemies, its traditional and long-time friends are no longer acting based on its political priorities and preferences either.

General Salami said, "We first talk to the world using the language of logic,” but the country’s missile stockpiles are even more than necessary for countering the enemy’s aggression.