Ahmadinejad urges Libyans to unite against West
IRAN: Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday urged the
Libyan people to work together to prevent Western powers from taking
control of their country and plundering its wealth.
“Their first objective is to take control of Libya and (then) attempt
to impose non-revolutionary and non-popular rulers on its people,” he
said in a speech broadcast live on state television from South Khorasan
province.
“NATO forces intervened under the pretext of helping Libyans ... and
have turned Libya into ruins ... and under the pretext of reconstructing
Libya, they want to plunder its wealth,” Ahmadinejad said.
Iran supported the Libyan revolt against Moamer Kadhafi but strongly
denounced the military intervention of NATO that led to the victory of
the insurrection.
Ahmadinejad said he was certain that Libyans would “ stand in unity
and expel” Western powers.
Earlier, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi sent a message to the new
leaders of Libya hailing “the total liberation of the country,” the Mehr
news agency reported.
Press TV
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