Sunday, November 26, 2006

IRNA: "President: Power of US, Zionist regime about to collapse"

Ahmadinejad is, of course, only expressing a vague hope for the eventual peaceful disappearance of the Zionist entity:
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Sunday that thanks God the US devilish power is about to collapse and the Zionist regime is on the steep slide to toppling.

The chief executive made the remark while speaking at Basij Conference at the mausoleum of the founder of Islamic Revolution, the late Imam Khomeini.

The president called on the regional governments and nations to be vigilant and not be deluded by evil plots.

Ahmadinejad hoped for withdrawal of foreign troops from the Middle East region.
Also at IRNA: "DPRK calls for expansion of news cooperation with IRNA":
Democratic People's Republic of Korean Ambassador to Tehran Kim Chong Ryong on Sunday conferred with IRNA Managing Director Jalal Fayyazi on expansion of news media cooperation between the two countries.

The Korean ambassador said that DPRK is keen on broadcasting the news reflecting realities in both countries and called for expansion of news media and technical cooperation between the two countries.
I have always suspected collaboration.
Describing Tehran-Pyongyang relations as 'excellent', he said the his country attaches significance to expansion of bilateral cooperation in the media sector.

US is now broadcasting the news in line with its own interests, he said and called for the news agencies in Iran and DPRK to jointly cooperate on broadcasting their own news.

Highlighting Iran's peaceful nuclear program, he said all countries are entitled to take advantage of nuclear technology and it should not be monopolized by US, Russia and the European countries.

Iran's experience in peaceful application of nuclear technology would be to the benefit of its neighboring states and the entire region, he said.

Criticizing US double-standard in dealing with countries' access to peaceful nuclear technology, he said the US is to deprive others of nuclear energy and forge monopoly over it.

He called for expansion of cooperation in dealing with their joint enemy.

Referring to US sanctions imposed against Democratic People's Republic of Korea, he said, "If the US lifts economic sanctions against DP Republic of Korea, We will hold talks with the US administration," he said.

"The US has secretly informed us that it will press ahead with economic sanctions against Pyongyang in the upcoming negotiations between the six countries during December," he said.

"If the sanctions against DP Republic of Korea would not be lifted, Pyongyang would not hold negotiations to resolve the outstanding issues with Washington," he said.

"If there exist no threats or sanctions, we are not willing to possess nuclear arms in our country because we wish the Korean Peninsula along with the whole region to be free from nuclear arms," he said.

"The Americans never recognized our security and we were forced to conduct nuclear test to defend ourselves," he said.

"We are not afraid of US sanctions because it is about sixty years that the Americans imposed sanctions against us," he said.

IRNA managing director, for his part, called the current cooperation between the two countries news agencies as 'very fruitful' and said the big powers are now conducting a bias way of broadcasting the news.

A number of news agencies and TV networks try to mislead the world public opinion, he said adding that the cooperation between news agencies in the South such as Iran and DPRK could be effective to deal with the partial way of reporting and enable both countries to independently disseminate news and information," he said.

Welcoming the extensive cooperation between news agencies, he said the two news agencies could launch a mutually-based cooperation.

Exchange of news and technical cooperation between the two news agencies and setting up training workshops at IRNA School of Media Studies would prepare grounds for further expansion of cooperation between the two countries, he said.

Given extensive historical, economic and cultural cooperation between the two countries, the visits of the two countries ranking officials to one another are indications of common goals and common enemy, he said.

Both the Islamic Republic of Iran and DPR Korea want to go along with independent way of life and make decision on their own fate, but, the US administration creates obstacles for them, he said.

Fayyazi thanked DPRK for supporting Iran's peaceful nuclear program and said that the Islamic Republic of Iran seeks to produce nuclear energy which would be to the benefit of Iran and the entire region as well.

"We wish a world free from nuclear weapons and believe that the whole world should be clear from non-conventional arms," he said He expressed the hope that the DPR Korean nuclear problem with US would be resolved peacefully through negotiations.

"Goodwill is the key to resolve the issue and we hope the US would avoid threatening the DPRK and try to resolve the issue through negotiations leading the whole world to a world free from nuclear weapons," he said.

"Unification of DPRK and South Korea would be to the benefit of both nations, he said adding that the US created geographical borders to disunite the Korean nation who have common cultures. The US sees solidarity of Korean nation harmful to its interests," he concluded.

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