Leader: Iran's dispute with US dates back to 1953 coup and before
Tehran, Nov 3, IRNA – Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Sunday that some try to distort history and say that Iran-US dispute originated from seizure of the US embassy in 1979, whereas it dates back to US coup against Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953.
Ayatollah Khamenei said in a meeting with school and university students that the US-backed coup led to setting up a corrupt dependent regime in Iran.
Ayatollah Khamenei said that since November 1964, when the shah sent Imam Khomeini into exile, the US has not changed even a little bit. It is the same US, the same wolf, the dictator, the same evil that knows no borders.
The US is less powerful than it was then; but wilder and more shameless right now, he said.
The US was hostile to the people of Iran even before the Islamic Revolution. They toppled a national government of Iran in a coup in 1953, although that government was somewhat responsible for the coup, because of the trust it placed in the US, he said.
