10-4-2007
A.D, 22 Rabi'I 1428
A statement by the Religious Authority, Sayyed
Muhammad Hussein Fadlullah, regarding the American threats to Iran:
Fadlullah warns from a big American fire that will
burn the Arab power positions.
America knows that Iran is not seeking to possess
the bomb.
When the American Administration talks about
negotiations it is actually telling the other party, especially Syria
and Iran, that it should accept its conditions even before sitting at
the table. These conditions are in reality Israeli conditions, for
America’s commitment to ensure the Israeli military supremacy in the
region, has come to mean the preventing of any military progress for
the other parties, as well as undermining any technological and
industrial development. This is, in fact, what America is plotting
against Iran.
The Bush Administration knows quite well that Iran
is not seeking to make the bomb, since it does not need it, neither
militarily nor strategically. It actually possesses all the other
capabilities that enable it to defend itself. Moreover, making a
nuclear weapon is religiously prohibited, as was declared by the
highest Iranian Authority.
Although America knows all this, it wants to stop
the Iranian technological and industrial development that acts as an
incentive to several other states in the Third World. The same motive
could be attributed to the Europeans, for they all want the Arab and
Muslim worlds to remain a consuming market for their goods and a
milking cow that provides them with the raw materials.
That is why, we have to be cautious towards the
American, and even some European, calls for a package deal, since the
Bush Administration that is moving quickly towards waging a war that
would burn the region, in addition to its other mobile wars in various
parts of the worlds, has the mentality of an arrogant empire that sees
in negotiations a means of driving the opponent to surrender, after
accusing him of supporting terrorism or being as rogue state, and
violating international law, just as it is doing with Syria and Iran,
knowing that is no country that has violated this law more than the US
and Israel. The entire world knows that America does not accept the
trying of any American aboard, while it kidnaps others to try them on
its lands, in a show of imperial arrogance that does not take the
rules of international law into consideration.
We warn that America who failed in the region is
preparing for a new wave of violence and a major war which some
numbers of the Bush Administration think its is the decisive one.
Although such an adventure will burn the American
hands, and pave the way for the emergence of a different world, we
would like the regional states to try to prevent such a fire, since it
will not only reach the backyards of many countries in the region and
in the world, it will also burn the Arab regimes that are already
unstable.
Therefore, we call on them to move before it is too
late.