Tehran, IRNA – Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf has underlined that today’s United States is the same US of the time of 1953 Iranian coup d'état (28 Mordad coup), because the level and depth of Washington’s arrogant view in dealing with other countries, including Iran, has not changed at all.

Qalibaf made the remarks in Wednesday session of the parliament coincident the anniversary of repatriation of Iran’s prisoners of war from Iraq on August 17, 1990.

As to the US-led 1953 coup, the speaker noted that the Iranian nation has a long list of animosity, disloyalty, looting, crimes and intervention of foreign powers in particular the US to see them as the document of revealing the nature of arrogant powers.

The 1953 coup is one of the blatant and undeniable examples that shows the hegemonic power does not give a damn to democracy and freedom, whenever the arrogant power sees it is losing its interests; so, it undermines independence of other countries, he added.

Hence, the US’s attitude to other nations such as Iran has not changed and even it has been worsened on a day-by-day basis in order to hatch more sophisticated plots to bring independent nations such as the Iranian nation into their knees, Qalibaf said.

According to the official, the US paid certain people to initiate the 1953 coup in Iran and it spared no efforts to overthrow the Islamic Revolution in the first years of the victory of the revolution.

The US aided and abetted the Ba’athist regime during the 8-year Iraq-Iran war, he said, adding that Washington kicked off an all-out economic war on the Islamic Republic.

The White House also is the biggest supporter of the Zionist regime, which is the root cause of crimes in the region, the speaker said, noting that the US equipped Takfiri groups in the Syria and Iraq in a bid to destroy security and sovereignty of regional states such as Iran.

The United States violated all humanitarian and legal principles, when they assassinated the flag-bearer of fighting terrorism in the region Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad, he noted.

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