Iran: Supreme Leader slams Bush record on human rights

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei on Monday in his message to the Hajj pilgrims:


irna: The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei on Monday stressed the perpetrators of crimes in Guantanamo, Abu Ghuraib and clandestine prisons in Europe have no right to speak of human rights.

... "The claim of advocacy of civil rights by the devils, who have always praised and encouraged the crimes of a bloodsucking terrorist like Sharon against the oppressed Palestinians, is merely a blameworthy deception.

"The perpetrators of crimes in Guantanoma, Abu Ghuraib and clandestine prisons in Europe, the humiliators of the Iraqi and Palestinian nations and the promoters of the groups that in the name of Islam consider it permissible to shed the blood of Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan do not have any right to speak of human rights.

"The American and British governments that permit the torture and even shedding of the blood of the accused on the streets and the eavesdropping of the telephone calls of the citizens without a judicial verdict do not have any right to introduce themselves as advocates of civil rights.

"The governments that have tarnished their contemporary history through production and employment of nuclear and chemical weapons do not have any right to consider themselves the custodians of nuclear non-proliferation."

Read full text of message - he's not all wrong [and I'm sure that the venerable one would be grateful to hear that] . More to agree with than in a similar length text from, say, Blair probably.