The provisional Friday prayer leader for Tehran, Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami, said in his sermon today that the U.S. decision to include Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) on its list of international terrorist organizations was "another golden page in the IRGC's history."
In his sermon, Khatami said, "The IRGC has truly shined well during the 28-year history of the Islamic Republic of Iran... The late founder of the Islamic Republic [Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini said that] he was pleased with the IRGC, and that he would never think negatively about them."
He added, "Therefore, the U.S. State Department's decision to include the IRGC in its list of world terror organs is merely another golden point in the records of IRGC pride."
Source: IRNA, Iran, August 17, 2007
