Following are excerpts
from a speech delivered by Iranian Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, which aired
on IRINN, the Iranian news channel, on February 15, 2011.
Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami:
The Association of Researchers and Teachers of Qom,1 which
exists only on the Internet, appears only in order to publish communiqués
denouncing [the regime]. They caused this battle by initiating this
fitna.
[...]
We say to the Americans
and to the Zionists that we consider them to be the real instigators
of the fitna. We will never forget who the main enemy is. We
constinue to shout passionately: Death to America, death to Israel.
Crowds: Death
to America, death to Israel!
Death to America, death
to Israel!
Death to America, death
to Israel!
[...]
Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami:
We, the clergy, explicitly say that we demand that all the rioters be
dealt with harshly and in a legal manner – especially Mousavi and
Karroubi.
[...]
