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Tehran to file case against Saddam
Iran is preparing a criminal complaint to present at any international court that may try former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein over the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.
| Boy, he's in trouble now! |
Government spokesman Abdullah Ramazanzadeh said on Monday that the foreign ministry had already taken some steps on the matter. "I hope we can defend Iranians' rightful demands at a proper place," he told a news conference.
| Get in line with the rest, Bub... |
About 300,000 Iranians were killed in the eight year war, including thousands who succumbed to chemical weapons attacks used by the Iraqi army.
| That's approximately the same number of Iraqis currently residing in mass graves... |
He said an international court "should determine who equipped
this dictator to disrupt our region and impose three big crises on our region," referring to Saddam's invasion of Iran, Kuwait and then the US invasion of Iraq itself. Saddam is known to have had the support of the United States, Britain, France, several other European countries as well as a number of key Arab states - including Saudi Arabia and Egypt - when he attacked Iran.
| Oh, is that it? If memory serves correctly, start with the Soviet Union, which was Iraq's biggest weapons supplier. |
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-12-15 |
