Via IRNA (Official Iran News Agency) -
Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said here Friday that Republicans' defeat in this week's midterm legislative elections show public opposition to the US' war mongering policies.
"That can not be considered a mere domestic event, rather it marks failure of the war mongering policies of (the US President George W.) Bush worldwide," said Ayatollah Khamenei in an address to a group of locals on the third day of his tour of Semnan.
Ayatollah Khamenei said Republicans' elections defeat can also mean victory of the Iranian nation in this juncture.
"Since Washington's hostile and war mongering policies have always been subjected to the Iranian nation, the defeat is in fact landmark victory of the Iranian nation in this political juncture," said the Supreme Leader.
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Ayatollah Khamenei praised Iranians' success in test-firing tens of sophisticated missiles and arms in wargames and said, "This apparently unattainable goal has now been materialized."
According to the Telegraph.co.uk, Ayatollah Khameni issued an unprecedented new fatwa, or holy order, sanctioning the use of atomic weapons against its enemies at the beginning of 2006.
However in recent remarks, the Ayatollah suggested that Iran is against nuclear arms. This latest fatwa report appears to be a complete reversal from his other fatwa in 2005. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has reputedly issued a fatwa forbidding the production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons with was cited in an official statement by the Iranian government at an August 2005 meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna.
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