Iran's Foreign Minister on Wednesday urged U.S. President Barack Obama to change American policies in the Middle East but said Iran will wait before making any specific judgments about Obama's positions on Iran.
Manouchehr Mottaki is quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying
Wednesday that Iran will wait for practical policies from the new American president before making any judgment about Obama's stance on Iran.
Mottaki also said Wednesday that resistance groups around the world like those in Gaza had the right to have access to weapons to fight against "colonialists."
"A government or a people who would like to defend themselves, it is very natural they will do their utmost to get weapons from whatever place possible," Mottaki said in a speech on the conflict in Gaza.
Israel accuses Iran of providing weapons to Hamas. Tehran says it provides financial, humanitarian and moral support and has condemned Israel's offensive in the Palestinian territory.
Mottaki, who did not say Iran would itself offer arms, added that Israel's goals in Gaza had been to "wipe away the resistance and also to destroy the defensive capability of the resistance," in a clear to reference to Hamas.
"Resistance struggles around the world, those who struggle against colonialists, it is their right to defend themselves and to stand up to attacks by the enemy and to secure the release of their land, to continue with their struggle," Mottaki said.
"And to do that it is their natural right to have access to weapons," Mottaki said in the speed broadcast live and translated into English by Iran's Press TV.
The minister also said the former U.S. administration of George W. Bush followed a policy of waging wars that created a lot of hatred.
He said Obama needs to take action to correct America's bad image in the world.
Mottaki says Obama needs to employ new advisers who will, as he described it, tell the truth about the Middle East.
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