Via MEMRI:
At a November 19, 2011 conference in Hamadan dealing with the West’s “soft war” against the Iranian regime, Sharifi explained that the West had despaired of launching a military attack against Iran and that therefore it was trying to topple it from within by weakening its religious values and striking at the Iranian people’s obedience to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The following are the main points of his address:
Sharifi called Western music “an element that disrupts a man’s reason” and complained that “today, with the approval of the [Iranian] Culture Ministry, there are translations [in Iran] of the lyrics of [songs performed by] devil-worshipping singers, who enmesh young people in loss of identity and loss of [moral] restraint.”
Sharifi harshly criticized the American family, saying “Today, 70% of married American women say that they would be happier if they had a dog and a Toyota instead of a husband.” He added that only 7% of American families were “reasonable” and the other 93% were rootless and single-sex; in some cases, he said, Americans “would rather marry animals and robots than a human being.”