Tehran, Aug 23, IRNA -- Substitute Friday prayer leader of Tehran said here Friday that the US policy is based on financial interests and the rules of capitalism and therefore, surrendering to and negotiation with the US will not be to the interest of the Islamic system.

Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati in his second sermon criticized those calling for negotiations with the US and said that Ramsey Clark, former US Attorney General, had recently established an international anti-war center and had visits to many countries to divulge the US crimes.

The American official had in an interview published recently, called the consequences of the US economic sanctions more destructive than a neutron bomb, said Jannati, adding that the US policy makers had through the act prepared the ground for the massacre of the public without giving way to plundering of their wealth and properties.

Clark, he said, deems US domination on the world as the prime goal of the US policy makers, that are trying through different ways to materialize that objective.

If those efforts fail to meet their desired end through peaceful methods, said the clergyman, further quoting Clark as saying, Washington would resort to violence as severe as necessary to make sure those dreams would come true.

The American official has stressed that even the US efforts for political domineering at global level is aimed at plunder that country's wealth to unprecedented heights, according to Ahmad Jannati.

Jannati further quoted Clark as saying in the interview that the Vietnamese were punished by the US merely due their call for freedom and their nation's self determination right. The uprising, he said, claimed more than three million deaths and injuries, leading to a 20-year period of economic sanctions, which were worse than the killing of the people of that oppressed country.

Philippine in southeast Asia and Liberia in Africa are the two countries that were fully dominated by the US and no people in entire Africa is more miserable than the Liberians now.

A war erupted in the Philippines, resulting in the death of one million people, and in the concentration of the wealth of an island, which could be utilized in provision of food for the country's citizens, in the hands of 12 people, the clergyman further criticized the US influence in different countries.

He further quoted Clark as saying that the US is not even a democratic state when a sort of misunderstanding involving issues related to personal freedoms and numerous charges concerning healthy trend of democracy prevail in the the US political and social atmospheres.

Jannati further quoted Clark as saying that instead of a democratic government, the US witnesses sovereignty of the rich, concentration of wealth among elite social class and the gap between the poor and rich, which are unprecedented in their kind worldwide.

Former US attorney general adds in the interview that the US foreign policy is active in depriving other countries of their independence, said Jannati, adding that Clark believed a country failing to meet its foodstuff shortage can not be independent.

The Guardians Council secretary referred to the publication of reports by the CIA on intervention of the UK and the US in the August 1953 coup in Iran and highlighted the divulging views of Clark in that connection.

He quoted Clark as saying that Americans toppled Iran's democratic government and replaced it with the Shah's regime.

Shah's government protected the US interests in the sensitive Middle East region for 25 years and after the downfall of the Shah, the CIA chief announced the return of the Shah as the biggest achievement of the CIA during the past century.

The CIA chief had stressed the significance of Shah's 25-year services in securing the US interests, Clark was quoted as saying.

Elsewhere in his sermon, Jannati referred to Clark's statements on encouragement of Iraq by the US to wage a devastating war against Iran and fully elaborated on the US crimes in both Iraq and Iran.

"Under such conditions, is submission to the US demands and spending efforts to hold talks with that country in favor of Iran's national interests?" asked the clergy.

Despite the US confessions that the Baathi regime of Iraq had attacked Iran due to provocations by that country and with an aim to topple the Islamic Revolution, now an ignorant man refers to the war as fratricide, said Jannati, in an obvious reference to former culture and ISlamic guidance minister, Ataollah Mohajerani, who is now in charge of the International Center for Dialogue Among Civilizations.

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