http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/993174/postsAyatollah Khoemini's Grandson Applauds the US
Washington Times ^ | 10/01/03 | Eli J. Lake
Posted on 10/01/2003 12:36:54 PM PDT by Persia
The grandson of the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is in Washington this week and giving his blessing to the United States should it decide to invade Iran and throw the clerics out of power.
"The establishment of democracy should be taken very seriously in Iran," Hossein Khomeini said in an interview.
"Even if the situation necessitates for the United States to take military action in Iran, they should not hesitate," Mr. Khomeini said.
He called Americans liberators for invading neighboring Iraq and throwing out the regime of Saddam Hussein.
Hossein Khomeini has his grandfather's eyebrows, dark bushy lines arched like wide triangles over his dark eyes, but similarities to his grandfather, who established Iran's theocracy in 1979 and labeled the United States the Great Satan, end there.
For the interview, he wore loose-fitting gabardine slacks and a gray long-sleeve T-shirt with the outline of two arrows.
Mr. Khomeini said he opposed Iran's sponsorship of terrorism, a point he made last week at the United Nations for a terrorism conference.
"I like Washington," he said. "But I really love New York. The city has such a warmth to it."
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Certainly not the words of someone who would want to fly 2 airplanes into the 2 most prominent buildings in the NYC skyline.