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Iran's
supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him speaking during a meeting with
local nuclear scientists
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The United States is
using sex, money and Western lifestyles to infiltrate Iran's decision-making
elite, the Islamic republic's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on
Wednesday. The
remarks by Khamenei, who has the last word on matters of state, followed a wave
of arrests of journalists and intellectuals by Tehran authorities over fears of
Western infiltration after Iran reached an agreement with world powers over its
nuclear programme.
Reuters report continues:
"Two
main things are used for this infiltration: money and sexual attractions. They
are used to change beliefs, viewpoints and lifestyles, so that the affected
person will think in the same way as an American," Khamenei said in
remarks broadcast on state television.
"The
main targets of this infiltration are the elites, influential people and
decision-makers. This is why infiltration is such a great danger,"
Khamenei told a gathering attended by commanders of the Basij, IRGC's voluntary
militia arm.
The
IRGC has rounded up artists, journalists and U.S. citizens as part of the
crackdown on infiltration by the West.
Last week the U.N. General
Assembly's human rights committee criticized Iran for the crackdown, as well as
its increased use of the death penalty, a rebuke Tehran dismissed as
"Iranophobia."
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