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Iraq Prime minister: Iran not interfering in Iraq
by Open-Publishing - Friday 7 October 20052 comments
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Someone give Cheney the memo before he invades.
Iran not interfering in Iraq-Iraqi prime minister
06 Oct 2005 13:12:13 GMT
Source: Reuters
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TEHRAN, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Iraq’s Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari on Thursday rejected accusations that Shi’ite Muslim Iran was interfering in Iraq’s internal affairs.
Asked about accusations that Iran was interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq, Jaafari told Iranian state television: "Such accusations are baseless and we do not agree with them at all."
"Relations between Iran and Iraq are currently very friendly and strong and expanding. We are proud of the situation," he said. "Some people want to harm our existing friendly relations with Iran. But we will not let them do so. We are determined to expand our relations every day."
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Thursday that evidence pointed to Iran or its Lebanese Hizbollah allies as the source of explosives used in roadside bombs in Iraq, although Britain did not have conclusive proof.
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal has also criticised Iran’s growing influence in predominantly Shi’ite Muslim Iraq.
Tehran denies it helps militants in Iraq.
Jaafari said an Iraqi cabinet minister would shortly visit Iran to follow up on a number of agreements signed between the two countries which have considerably improvd relations since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
Under Saddam, Iraq and Iran fought a bitter 1980-1988 war in which hundreds of thousands of people died.
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7 October 2005, 09:42
Of course Bush and Blair don’t want friendly relations to develop between Iran and Iraq. Who knows what might happen? The B & B coallition might have to pull the troops out of Iraq, and then who will give them cheap oil? Add this to Bush’s bullshit (notice the similarity between those two words?) about Iran developing nuclear weapons, and you have sure signs that an attempt to invade (or nuke) Iran is on the books.
9 October 2005, 04:50
To late. The Bush gang is already manipulation evidence or calling on fake terrorist attacks like in N. Y.. If the American voters believe this rubbish they Gang will prevail, otherwise if the gang senses an early defeat the gang might get really desperate.