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US 'more ferocious' than Saddam, Iran leader says Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told thousands of Islamist militants on Wednesday that the United States was "a more ferocious wolf than Saddam's regime".
"The United States, despite its pretence of saving the Iraqi people, is a more ferocious wolf than Saddam's regime," state television quoted Khamenei as saying.
"Hateful US action in different areas, particularly Iraq, can no longer deceive public opinion, as every day the world's hatred of the United States increases.
"Unacceptable pressure, installing a foreign ruler, demanding resources (from Iraq), anarchy ... have exposed the true brand of human rights and democracy offered by the United States to the people of the Middle East," he said.
Denouncing what he called a US propaganda campaign against Iran, Khamenei said "the United States, by way of propaganda and media complexes ... pretends their opposition to Islam stems from the call for holy war, terrorism and hate ... but it's a big lie, because Islam is exonerated from all such accusations.
"The source of differences between the United States and the Islamic republic is the Islamic regime's wish to be independent and govern according to the will of the Iranian populace and not according to the will of oppressors," he said.
"The new Iranian generation's mastery of modern science fired our enemy's anger, and to disguise it, he resorted to propaganda and uproar (in the media) and wrongly accuses Iran of seeking to acquire weapons of mass destruction."
The international community, suspicious that Tehran has a secret weapons program, is pressing it to sign an additional protocol to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty allowing the International Atomic Energy Agency to carry out no-notice inspections of the country's installations.
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