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| The Alliance |
| Iran skeptical over Straw visit |
| 2001-09-24 |
Iran's press was highly sceptical Monday over the visit of British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, saying he would end up going home without getting Tehran's backing for a US-led anti-terrorism drive. Newspapers lambasted Straw for trying to secure Iran's participation in an international coalition to track down wanted terror suspect Osama bin Laden in neighbouring Afghanistan, and said he would return to London empty-handed. "Once again, the bad smell of the British," ran the headline in the hardline Jomhuri Eslami paper, just hours before Straw was to become the highest-ranking British official to visit since the 1979 Islamic revolution. "London's diplomacy is doomed to failure as long as it sides with a bullying and belligerent figure like (US President George W.) Bush," the English-language Tehran Times said. "If London really wants to distance itself from the terroristic policies of the US president and join the international campaign against terrorism, it definitely should not participate in the massacre of a Muslim nation," it said. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |