"In compliance with the logic of Islam, the Islamic Republic of Iran opposes and condemns any kind of explosion and killing of innocent people no matter it takes place in the United States' Boston or in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria," Ayatollah Khamenei said in Tehran on Wednesday, addressing a meeting with Iranian Army and Basij (volunteer forces) commanders and personnel on the threshold of the National Army Day.
"But", he said, "the attitude of America and others who allege to be supporters of human rights towards the killing of innocent people is contradictory and we, thus, believe that the United States and the front standing against the Islamic Republic of Iran are irrational."
Elaborating on the United States' selfish and irrational approach to terrorism, Ayatollah Khamenei said despite the Americans' claim about their opposition to the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), "the United States' drones massacre innocent people, children and women in Afghanistan and Pakistan, while the terrorists who are overtly or covertly supported by the US are killing people in Iraq and Syria".
"What kind of logic is this that if children and women in Afghanistan and Pakistan are killed by Americans and if the terrorists supported by the US, the West and the Zionists cause catastrophes in Iraq and Syria, it wouldn't matter, but if a blast takes place in the US or a western country, then the whole world should pay the price for it," he asked.
The Leader warned that "the paradoxical, irrational and bullying" behavior of the US and the West and their disrespect for human principles have pushed the western civilization towards demise.
The Iranian Supreme Leader's remarks came after two explosions rocked the Boston Marathon on Monday killing three people and injuring more than 138 others.
