Today the name of America has a magic meaning for the most distant commmunities of the world.

Today the name of America has a magic meaning for the most distant commmunities of the world.

I have learned by experience that a tragic end awaits anyone who dares cross swords with me; Nasser is no more, John and Robert Kennedy died at the hands of assassins, their brother Edward has been disgraced, Krushchev was toppled, the list is endless.

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

The Saudis have never shown any respect for human rights, either now or in the past. Even a petty burglar faces having one of his hands chopped off. The liberal press in America prefers to ignore all this, although they don't hesitate to blacken the reputation of Iran.

Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.

What's happened recently in Pakistan, India and Kuwait only goes to show that it's futile to imitate Western democracy. They've ended up exactly where they started.