One word. Wow.
Via CNS News:
A senior Obama administration official reacted mildly to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s vitriolic speech this week, comparing the harsh rhetoric coming from Iran’s supreme leader to anti-Iranian views expressed by some Americans.
“There are decades of mistrust between the United States and Iran, and we certainly have had many people in our society say difficult things about Iran and Iranians,” said the official, briefing reporters on condition of anonymity on the sidelines of talks in Geneva, where six world powers are hoping to secure a deal over Iran’s nuclear program.
The official had been asked about Khamenei’s inflammatory remarks, in a speech to militiamen on Wednesday, in which he called Israel a “sinister, unclean rabid dog,” said it was “doomed to fall,” and accused the U.S. of crimes against humanity. Among the latter charges: Two months after Japan had indicated a readiness to surrender during World War II the U.S. had gone ahead and dropped atom bombs anyway, he said, because it wanted to test them “in a real situation.”
“Of course, I don’t ever like it when people use rhetoric that in any way talks about the U.S. in ways that I find very uncomfortable and not warranted whatsoever,” the administration official said. “It is, of course, of concern.”