Analysis of US-Iran Relations and Politics

December was also the day Mr. Karzai entered the presidential palace.

A month and a half later, on January 28, two thousand and

two,

Mr. George W. Bush came to the, uh—

session,

the annual US Senate meeting, and gave a speech.

He started badmouthing Iran.

"Iran is part of the axis of evil, Iran is this, that, and the other."

He started badmouthing us.

Even though at that time, we made air— airports available to the Americans

so that

if their planes needed an emergency landing, they could come into

the area, the place we had designated for them to land there in Sistan.

We had provided the most service. We had even shed the most blood.

It shows that

somewhere behind the scenes of relations between the two countries,

someone doesn't want

Iran and America to get anywhere. Israel,

the Jews.

Whereas if the Americans had this pretext, with the help that we

had provided them in Afghanistan, with what happened on September

11, they could have built the biggest

bridge, uh—

Let me tell you, the normalization of relations,

normalization, they should remove it.