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'US in no position to wage war on Iran'
An Iranian diplomat says the United States is not in a position to invade Iran, downplaying US and Israeli threats of war as efforts to cover up their internal crises."We do not see the US in the position to start another war in the [Middle East] region," Iran's Ambassador to Venezuela Abdolreza Mesri said on Thursday. "The US situation in Afghanistan is very unfortunate," Fars News Agency quoted Mesri as saying. Referring to newly leaked data on the US-led war in Afghanistan, the Iranian envoy ruled out the possibility of a new war due to Washington's undermined position in Afghanistan, and its plummeting popularity in Pakistan and Turkey. "Iran is not Afghanistan nor is it [like] Iraq and they (the Americans) know well that [if] they were the ones to start and finish in Iraq, in Iran, the end of war will be determined by Iran." Mesri further downplayed the US war rhetoric as a policy adopted by US President Barack Obama and the Israeli regime in Tel Aviv to bridge their divisions with their rival political parties. Obama has been facing rising criticism over his administration's handling of the war in Afghanistan as well as his failure to mend the country's stagnant economy and solve the unrelenting unemployment in the US. Posted by: Fred 2010-08-14 |
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