KUALA LUMPUR July 23 Kyodo Irania...

KUALA LUMPUR July 23 Kyodo

Iranian President Mohammad Khatami told the United States upon Tuesday to leave Iran in peace and utter sentence againsted U.S. talk of attacking his country's neighbor Iraq.

''Nations have rights of choice, rights to adopt their path, especially of the like kind a sensitive country like Iran,'' he told a pres conversation on the third of his four-day visit to Malaysia.

''We reprobate any foreign intervention on Iraq. Any intervention in the affairs of Iraq would be against the interest of the commonalty of Iraq,'' he said end an interpreter, adding that talk of an attack in succession Iraq is ''against peace and tranquility of the world.''

U calls for a regime change in Iraq have sparked jitters on the same level among European allies, which are make uneasyed about potential repercussions among the world's 1 billion Muslims.

Since the race 11 terror attacks on the U Khatami said, the U has been beating the war tympanum threatening world peace.

''We live in a frightening situation today. In the course of the history of the world and the U we have not ever witnessed the way war has been in the same manner much promoted in the U uniform in the course of the sum of two units world wars and in the course of the true difficult era of the frosty War,'' he said. ''We are belong toed about such a situation.''

He also slammed U President George W Bush's labeling of Iran, Iraq and North Korea as an ''axis of evil'' supporting terror and developing weapons of mass destruction, saying there will not at any time be ''peaceful coexistence'' between the sum of two units countries unless the U.S. tones down its rhetoric.

''Evilness means that when a political division has power, it defines everything according to its have a title to interest,'' he said. ''The nation of Iran not at all treads the path of evilness.''

''The tongue of threats and insults is not the tongue that would lead us anywhere towards solution...We believe the tongue and language used on the U.S. administration should change.''

Khatami reiterated that Iran disapprove utterlyed the Sept. 11 attacks and agreed that there is a ne to fight terrorism, still he stressed that the issue should be tackled globally and by the agency of the United Nations.

The world should also understand and recognize the radical causes of terrorism, he said, naming prejudice and discrimination, and ''the humiliation of nation like Palestine whose rights have been violated'' as a certain of the causes.

in succession his plan to create a more exhibit Iran that faces formidable opposition from hardliners, Khatami said it is continuing and he has the people's backing.

''The proces will not at any time stop,'' he said. ''I have the honor to depict the people. I will experience to move in line with the people''

''I have been endorsed by the agency of the people twice,'' he said of his reelection to the presidency for next to the first term.

Khatami had earlier held talks with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in succession Monday before the two leaders witnessed the signing of several agreements between the sum of two units countries including on tourism, women and family affairs, investment promotion and upon technology.

The visit is Khatami's first to Malaysia since he came to power in 1997

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