Iran blames U.S. for failures in Iraq

[maddezmom]

Source: Reuters

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A senior Iranian diplomat on Wednesday rejected U.S. charges that Iran was trying to undermine stability in Iraq and accused the United States of trying to blame Tehran for its own failures there.

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"During the recent operations in Basra, Sadr City and Maysan, Iraqi troops uncovered convincing evidence that Iranian lethal aid has continued to flow into Iraq," he said.


He said highly trained insurgents had fled to Iran, where they received sanctuary, adding that the activities of Iran's Islamic Republican Guards Corps-Qods Force "contradict Iran's publicly stated policy of supporting the Iraqi government and must cease."

Iranian U.N. envoy Mehdi Danesh Yazdi rejected the allegations, lashing back at Wolff's comments in a statement he circulated at the United Nations.

"The U.S. government unwarrantedly insists on its unacceptable behaviour in scapegoating others, including Iran, for its own wrong policies in Iraq in order to distract the attentions from the sources of U.S. failures in that country," Yazdi said


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[LynnTheDem]

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