The young generation is just as committed to the principles of the Islamic Revolution as "their revolutionary forefathers."

No major turn of event likely in Iran: Cleric
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:30:19 GMT

After a massive turnout in a pro-government rally on the
30th anniversary of the US embassy takeover in Tehran, a
senior cleric brands US longing for an uprising in Iran as
"false hope."

"The US government should not put its faith in a small group
of protestors and expect them to change the country's
course," said Tehran's Interim Friday Prayers Leader Seyyed
Ahmad Khatami.

Ayatollah Khatami said the high turnout in the recent
rallies prove that the younger generation of Iranians is
just as committed to the principles of the Islamic
Revolution as "their revolutionary forefathers."

"People have marched in hundreds of thousands to show their
support and loyalty to the government and the demonstrators,
who gathered in hundreds to chant opposition slogans, were
no match for them."

"Western countries, particularly the United States, should
not expect a major turn of events in Iran. There is nothing
going on in the country," he said.

Ayatollah Khatami was referring to a massive wave of rallies
marking the takeover of the American embassy in Tehran more
than thirty years ago.

University students, convinced of a US plot against the
Islamic Revolution, stormed the American embassy on November
4, 1979, only months after the Western-backed Pahlavi regime
was toppled in Iran.

After finding shredded documents inside the embassy that
proved their convictions to be true, Iranians held hostage
fifty-two Americans for 444 days and demanded an official
apology from the US for its destructive role in the county.
November 4, has since been commemorated as the national day
of fighting global arrogance.

Iranians also called for the unfreezing of the country's
assets in US and urged Washington officials to promise not
to interfere in Iran's internal affairs.

The hostage-taking marked the end of Washington-Tehran
relations and eventually resulted in the Algiers Accords in
January 19, 1981.

Under the agreement, Washington promised that "It is and
from now on will be the policy of the United States not to
intervene, directly or indirectly, politically or
militarily, in Iran's internal affairs."

However, the agreement has been breached by the United
States on numerous occasions.

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