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A: We have one. It's in the Swiss Embassy. These are not important things. If I want to, in a friendly manner, advise U.S. politicians, if they want to halt this great decline, they have to do it with great changes. A major illness can only be cured with a major operation.
We believe that time is not on the side of the West. That's why, in his letter, President Ahmadinejad said that mere reforms are not useful. . . .
Q: Do you expect Mr. Obama to answer this letter?
A: That is not important to us. I told you, it was offered as advice. History will be the judge of the mistake that Bush made when he didn't answer Mr. Ahmadinejad's letter.
Q: So the same goes for Mr. Obama?
A: He said he will respond. But if he doesn't, yes.
Can I explain something? Our political dialogue according to the Koran and Islam is not very complicated. It is very clear, obvious and easy. While those in the West are used to searching for deeper layers, finding connections and using imagination, they don't pay attention to what's in front of them. A prominent Western politician said that politics is not what is being said, but what is being done. In Iran, such a person would be called a "monafegh," a hypocrite, a deceiver. . . .
Let's be clear. Our policies and position towards America have not changed at all. Our problems with America are strategic. We are neither expecting nor will we carry out merely small or symbolic actions.
As our president said at the United Nations, we are ready to negotiate in fair and equal circumstances. And fair and equal does not mean sitting down at a table while there are 250,000 fully armed American soldiers in our region. A fair and equal situation is not when you have a bayonet pressed at your artery.
We are really waiting to see a change in the invading, imperialist, plundering and terrorist actions of America. . . .
Q: If Obama were to come to Iran tomorrow, what would you do?
A: He can come as a tourist.
Q: But he will be president.
A: He is not president yet.
Q: OK, what if he comes as president, on Jan. 21?
A: I can't make prophecies.
