Iran in wait for change in US policy
2004/01/25
IRIB English News - Iran
Tehran, Jan 25 - President Mohammad Khatami on Sunday strongly pledged that any fundamental change in US policies toward Iran will change the existing atmosphere of hostility between the two arch-foes.
"If we observe a fundamental change in American policies, a new situation will prevail," he told reporters here after welcoming Austrian President Thomas Klestil who arrived on a four-day visit early Saturday evening.
"We have no enmity toward anyone, anywhere (they might be).But we also expect that others do not make enmity toward us," Khatami added.
Washington cut ties with Tehran in 1980 in wake of a hostage crisis after Iranian students stormed the US embassy in Tehran and arrested its staff.
Since then, the United States has taken an antagonistic stance against Iran, assisting the deposed regime of Saddam Hussein during the imposed Iraqi war between 1980 and 1988.
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