Cuban News Agency – August 7,
2010
The Commander in Chief Fidel Castro said
today that he hopes that US President Barack Obama will not order an
attack on Iran “if we all persuade him not to.”
That was the
purpose of the Cuban Revolution leader’s address to the Cuban
parliament summoned for an extraordinary session in Havana, due to
the urgency of mobilizing the world, faced with the danger of a
nuclear war that would be triggered by a US-Israeli led aggression
on Iran.
Standing on a podium, in the presence of President
Raul Castro, Fidel read amessage to the Cuban legislative body
making emphasis of the threat of an armed conflict in the
Arabian-Persian Gulf, for which he held the American
presidentresponsible.
Fidel said men’s pretensions must have
a limit that can’t be surpassed and added that in this critical case
President Obama would have to give the order of the so much
announced attack “in tune with the standards of the gigantic
empire.”
“But, in the instant he gives the order, which is
the only one he could give due to the power, speed and countless
number of missiles accumulated in an absurd competion between
powers, he would be ordering the instant death not only of hundreds
of millions of people, including, an immeasurable number of
inhabitants of his own country, but also the crews of all US ships
in the seas near Iran.”
“Simultaneously, the war would break
out in the Near and Far East and across Eurasia,” said Fidel.
He also explained that fate decreed that at this precise
moment, the President of the United States is a descendant of an
African and a white, of a Muslim and a Christian and that he will
not give the order if he becomes aware of the problem.
After
reading his message, Fidel encouraged a dialogue with the Cuban
deputies to find solutions to the issue and called on them to think
of ways to spread the call for peace.
Source: www.cubanews.ain.cu/2010/0807fidel-calls-on-the-world-to-persuade-obama-not-to-unleash-war.htm
Last updated 08/08/2010
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