(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - One such figure is Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri, former Majlis (Parliament) Speaker. He had given an account of Russian Duma Speaker’s visit to Supreme Leader.
Then the Majlis Speaker, Nategh-Nouri writes in his memoirs: “when Gennadiy Seleznyov came for a meeting to Iran, a meeting with the Supreme Leader was also arranged for him. Selenznyov was a prestigious politician and Supreme Leader gave a warm welcome to him and praised Russia.”
“Supreme Leader said to Seleznyov that his race indicating his being courageous and valiant, and that he was a Slav,” Nategh-nouri memoirs continues.
“Supreme Leader pointed to Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, saying that he had read two novels on the subject, one to have been written by a French writer and the other by a Russian,” Nategh-Nouri writes in his memoirs.
Nategh-Nouri goes on to express his impression of Seleznyov as being ‘very surprised.’ “The Supreme Leader continued that French writer’s (I cannot remember the name Supreme Leader said) account of the events had been from an active and aggressive point of view, he had used ‘we,’ and had said ‘we invaded,’ ‘we plundered,’ and ‘we burned,’ but Russian writer had had a defensive prospect and had used ‘we resisted,’ ‘we drew the French here,’ and ‘we burned them in wrath’s fire,’” he writes.
“The Supreme Leader went on to say that Russians saw the history as that, and had this history, and that they could revive past sovereignty,” he writes.
“When Seleznyov came out of the meeting, said to me that the Leader surprised me. He asked me if I knew Moscow’s history,” he writes. “ Russian Duma speaker then said that he thought that the Leader had known Russian history better than Russian themselves, and that how the Leader, with so much work, and a hectic plan, would know details about Russian and French novels, history, and Napoleon’s invasion of Moscow,” Nategh-Nouri accounts.
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