The United States is using sex, money and Western lifestyles to infiltrate Iran’s decision-making elite, the Islamic republic’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday.
The remarks by Khamenei, who has the last word on
matters of state, followed a wave of arrests of journalists and intellectuals
by Tehran authorities over fears of Western infiltration after Iran reached an
agreement with world powers over its nuclear programme.
“Two main things are used for this infiltration:
money and sexual attractions. They are used to change beliefs, viewpoints and
lifestyles, so that the affected person will think in the same way as an
American,” Khamenei said in remarks broadcast on state television.
“The main targets of this infiltration are the
elites, influential people and decision-makers. This is why infiltration is
such a great danger,” Khamenei told a gathering attended by commanders of the
Basij, IRGC’s voluntary militia arm.
The IRGC has rounded up artists, journalists and
U.S. citizens as part of the crackdown on infiltration by the West.
Last week the U.N. General Assembly’s human
rights committee criticized Iran for the crackdown, as well as its increased
use of the death penalty, a rebuke Tehran dismissed as “Iranophobia.”
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