Commander Underlines Iran's Opposition to US Relations

"As declared by the great Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Iran's ties with the US will be the relations of sheep and wolf and the relations with the US administration will not be in the interest (of Iran) until the US remains inhuman," Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Seyed Hassan Firouzabadi said, addressing a group of ranking Iranian officials on Tuesday.

"Today the US statesmen have shown that they are prisoners of Zionists, super-capitalists and British Freemasons," Firouzabadi said.

He pointed to the US support for the Quds occupying regime, Washington's meddling in Syria, production of sacrilegious movie against Islam's Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), the US administration's support for homosexuality and abortion and the growing number of bankrupt and poor families in the US as evidence testifying that the US statesmen are prisoners of Israel's policies.

Firouzabadi further noted that Iran's ties with the US will not be in the interest of Iran as long as current conditions remain unchanged in the United States and while the US does not allow the rule of real democracy and does not respect for people's rights to vote.

The United States and Iran broke diplomatic relations in April 1980, after Iranian students seized the United States' espionage center at its embassy in Tehran. The two countries have had tense relations ever since.

Yet, relations between the two arch foes specially deteriorated following Iran's progress in the field of civilian nuclear technology. Iran says its nuclear program is a peaceful drive to produce electricity so that the world's fourth-largest crude exporter can sell more of its oil and gas abroad. The US and its western allies allege that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program while they have never presented corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations against the Islamic Republic.
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