Ali Khamenei
Has been the Supreme Leader of the Muslim Ummah in the Islamic Republic of Iran since 1989.
We will never start a war. We have no intention of going to war with any government.
What makes Bush different from Hitler? He commits crimes in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons. With all these crimes, they still behave like bullying claimants. They get angry once they see an independant nation.
The people who control America today make decisions like drunkards. They do not understand what they are doing at all.
When the American president visits countries in South America[...], the peoples there welcome him by burning the American flag...This means the shaking of the foundations of liberal democracy, of which the West, and above all America, claim to be the standard bearer....Day by day, the reputation of liberal democracy and of America - the vanguard of liberal democracy in the world - is diminished in the eyes of the world. At the same time, the reputation of Islamic Iran grows. The peoples understand that the Americans are lying, when they claim to be defending human rights.
Western diplomacy tends to ignore Khamenei, who sabotages any effort to go around him as the final arbiter of Iranian policy.