From MEMRI TV, some excerpts from Anti-American Sermons in Iran:
The TV channel of the district of Kerman aired this sermon on April 17, 2005:
Hojjat Al-Eslam Yahya Ja’fari: As you know, the biggest problem of the Islamic world today is global Zionism and the Great Satan – America.
They are our enemies, especially the enemies of the Islamic Republic of Iran. They do not understand [the language of] reason, they do not follow international law, nor do they follow moral and humane laws. They have no religion and they do not accept God. They are a bunch of profane people, but seemingly, some are called Christians and some are called Jews. If the prophet Jesus were among us, would he justify the criminal measures America takes today in the name of promoting democracy and freedom? Would he justify these criminal measures?
Allah be praised, every passing day the peoples’ hatred festers, especially among the youth in Islamic countries. This hatred of the Great Satan and global Zionism constantly intensifies.
Our senior officials, our delegation to the negotiations [with the EU], our president, and everybody else should know – the Europeans, Americans, and Israelis do not understand and will not accept any language but the language of force.
The following are excerpts from a Friday Sermon at Tehran University by former Iranian President and the head of the Iranian Expediency Council, Hashemi Rafsanjani. Channel 1 of the Iranian TV aired this sermon on April 8, 2005.
Rafsanjani: The teachings of Jesus do not exist in the Christian world today. They cannot serve as popes and spread the teachings of Jesus, and at the same time disregard the crimes that America commits all over the world. It’s true that they opposed the war in Iraq, but America’s crimes aren’t limited to that. What America does all over the world in the name of the war on terrorism, the way in which it plunders the resources of peoples in needy and backwards countries, its aggression in international organizations, which belong to all of the world’s peoples, and the inflammatory propaganda it uses in order to undermine other countries – all of these certainly contradict the spirit of the teachings of Jesus. Jesus compared the money-grubbing oppressors of his time to man-eating vipers and confronted them, so how can the Pope’s functionaries remain indifferent when they see the oppression committed by the international arrogance? Therefore, a heavy responsibility lies on their shoulders. They should raise a great outcry against America. They should say to the Americans: Through the crimes you commit you disgrace Jesus, because you use the names of Jesus and the church to win over many votes in the American public.
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