Following are excerpts from an interview with Iranian political analyst Majid Safataj , which aired on the Iranian news channel on December 30, 2006.
Majid Safataj : In the age of the atom and the laser, when the enemy has mobilized all it can, in order to fight Islam and the world of Islam, and to plunder the great resources and reserves of the Islamic world, we, too, in the age of the atom and the laser, must obtain and equip ourselves with these means.
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The world of Islam must move in this direction. Otherwise, in this age of the atom and the laser, we will not be able to use a broken sword to fight the atom and the laser, and the other advanced equipment at the disposal of the Western world.