Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that Iranians' hatred towards the United States is deep-rooted, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
"Due to the numerous plots by the U.S. against Iran during the last 50 years, Iranians' hatred towards the United States is deep," Khamenei addressed the students who had gathered on the eve of Nov. 4, the seizure day of the U.S. embassy in Tehran.
Being called the "nest of spying," the U.S. embassy was stormed by Iranian students on Nov. 4, 1979 and its personnel were held hostage for 444 days.
"The discord between Iran and the United States is more than just the difference on political outlooks," he said, adding that "waking up to the Islamic Revolution, the United States found Iran no more as its major site in the Middle East."
In the same rhetoric as Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Khamenei reiterated that "the United States will never be able to stop Iranians from soaring up on their way to independence and dignity."
The United States broke off diplomatic relations with Iran in 1980 over its embassy takeover and their ties have remained severed ever since.
Although the Iranian president said in July that he was ready to talk with his U.S. counterpart George W. Bush directly, Iran's president media consultant Mehdi Kalhor said earlier this month that Iran has two conditions for talks with Washington.
"If the United States does not move out of the Middle East and the U.S. government does not give up its support for the Zionist regime, we do not think the talks between Iran and the United States would be advisable," Kalhor said.
Source:Xinhua
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