Basij Commander: Collapse of US system imminent

Commander of Iran's Basij (volunteer) force Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi on Sunday expressed confidence about the imminent collapse of the US governing system due to the downfall of its economy and political system."The US has experienced collapse in politics and economy and the most importantly in ethics. It is the most unpopular government in the world and people of the world will soon witness its final decomposition," Naqdi said in a ceremony here in Tehran on Sunday. Last Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stressed that the world nations are strongly opposed to the hegemonic and militaristic policies of the US, and described the Obama administration as the most hated government in the world. "Today, US rulers are the most hated in the world," Ahmadinejad said in Iran's Eastern city of Birjand on Tuesday. In similar remarks in August, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei underscored that the United States' wrong policies and measures in the region and the world have turned it into the most resented state in the Muslim world. "The regional and global hatred for the US is on the rise and the US is the most unreliable and most hated country in the region and in the Muslim world," Ayatollah Khamenei said in a meeting with the heads of Iran's three branches of power, top military commanders of the armed forces, senior statesmen and officials in Tehran in August. According to a new survey of public opinion in six Arab countries released in July, the United States' popularity in the Arab world has plummeted to levels lower than the last year of the George W. Bush administration. The "Arab Attitudes" survey found that favorable ratings of the United States have fallen by nine percent or more in Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over the past two years. In Egypt, they fell from 30 percent to a meager five percent. Only in Lebanon did positive views of the US (23 percent) remain consistent.