Channel 1 of Iranian TV broadcast a Friday sermon from Tehran University on May 7, 2004 . The preacher is Ayatollah Muhammad Emami Kashani, the Temporary Friday Preacher of Tehran. Following are excerpts from the sermon:

Ayatollah Kashani: By using power, money, fraud, the enemy is interested in gaining control over the world of Islam. Power (meaning) weapons in unlimited amounts money, fraud, trickery, deception, lies… lies… So much torture in Iraqi prisons, (America) says: "Never mind, it only appears so." They are not even ashamed to face the people and the world and tell them these things. "It only appears so." He (Bush) says, "It only appears so. The real purpose is that we wish to give Iraq security. We wish to give them democracy." But it seems as though this way you also kill old and young, men and women, humiliating them, and being audacious in various ways.

Audience:Death to America

Death to America

Death to America

Death to America

Death to America

Death to America

Death to America

Kashani: The deception is thus: they turn the Hamas leader into a martyr. This despicable Sharon and that man (i.e. Bush) standing in America, declaring to the whole world, "We have two types of terror, good terror and bad terror. Good terrorists and bad terrorists. This is good terror." This is our situation.