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US policy responsible for UN HQ blast
Former Iranian president Ali Akbar Rafsanjani called Friday for the United Nations to replace the coalition in running post-war Iraq to fix the "disaster" left by the US-led administration. "If the United Nations takes charge in Iraq, then countries like Russia, Germany, France, China, India and the Islamic countries will come to Iraq to find a way to help the region get out of this disaster that the United States has made," Rafsanjani said during weekly prayers on Friday. "The Iraqi situation is becoming like a puzzle, which has very bad repercussions for the world," he added. "All the Muslims and the world have to come together to find a logical solution for the Iraqi and the Palestinian issues which have inflamed our region," he said. Also: Iranian President Mohammed Khatami said the bombing of United Nations headquarters in Baghdad that killed top UN envoy to Iraq Sergio Viera de Mello was the result of misguided US policy. "Sergio Vieira de Mello was the victim of misguided (US) behavior, which set the ground for violent actions," Khatami said late Wednesday, speaking to former Iranian prisoners of war from the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq conflict.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-08-23 |
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