[Vision2020] Obama receives the coveted Iranian endorsement

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Larijani: Iran prefers Obama
Iranian parliament speaker says his country is leaning towards
Democratic candidate in US presidential election 'because he is more
flexible and rational'
AFP

Iranian parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said Wednesday that Iran would
prefer Democrat Barack Obama in the White House next year. Larijani
also dismissed any idea that the US would attack Iran.

"We are leaning more in favor of Barack Obama because he is more
flexible and rational, even though we know American policy will not
change that much," Larijani said at a press conference during a visit
to Bahrain.

How to deal with Iran and the crisis over its nuclear drive has been
one of the foreign policy issues in the Nov. 4 race for the White
House between Obama and Republican John McCain.

Larijani, a leading figure in the conservative camp in Iran, also said
the United States was too busy dealing with the global financial
crisis to consider waging an attack on Iran.

"The risk was low before," he said. "But now I am 100% certain that
the United States will not unleash a war against Iran. The economic
crisis has cost the United States $1.4 trillion and Washington is
working to resolve its internal problems and not a war."

Washington severed ties with Iran in 1980 in the wake of the Islamic
revolution. US President George W. Bush famously denounced the country
as part of an "axis of evil".

Tensions have mounted over Iran's nuclear program, which many Western
countries believe is a cover for ambitions to build atomic weapons,
although this is vehemently denied by Tehran.
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