(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei underscored that the United States' wrong policies and measures in the region and the world have turned the country into the most resented state in the Muslim world.
"The regional and global hatred for the US is on the rise and the US is the most unreliable and most hated country in the region and in the Muslim world," Ayatollah Khamenei said in a meeting with the heads of Iran's three branches of power, top military commanders of the armed forces, senior statesmen and officials in Tehran on Sunday.
"If European people become aware of the real cause of their problems, which is the domination of the US and the Zionist regime over the policies of their governments, certainly the declining trend of the United States' popularity in Europe will further accelerate," he stated, and added, "And this event will happen in the near future."
According to a new survey of public opinion in six Arab countries released in July, the United States' popularity in the Arab world has plummeted to levels lower than the last year of the George W. Bush administration.
The "Arab Attitudes" survey found that favorable ratings of the United States have fallen by nine percent or more in Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over the past two years.
In Egypt, they fell from 30 percent to a meager five percent. Only in Lebanon did positive views of the U.S. (23 percent) remain consistent.
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8 August 2011 - 19:30
News ID: 258552
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei underscored that the United States' wrong policies and measures in the region and the world have turned the country into the most resented state in the Muslim world.
