Iranian War Veterans Rebuff Japanese FM's Remarks on Palestinians

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Iranian War Veterans Rebuff Japanese FM's Remarks on Palestinians

Iran's Society of the Chemically Disabled War Veterans on Saturday protested Japan's stance on the recent developments in the Palestinian territories, the official IRNA news agency reported.

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Iran's Society of the Chemically Disabled War Veterans on Saturday protested Japan's stance on the recent developments in the Palestinian territories, the official IRNA news agency reported.

In a letter to Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi, the society deplored her remarks that Iran, Syria and Lebanon must be put under pressure to rein in the radical Lebanese Islamic group Hezbollah, or Party of God.

They lashed out at Kawaguchi's negative comment on the Palestinian children pelting stones at Israeli soldiers who gunned them down.

The letter questioned Kawaguchi's knowledge on what Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had done in the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon in 1982.

Sharon resigned the next year as the then Israeli defense minister after he was linked to the "massacre" at the refugee camps.

The association called on the Japanese foreign minister to condemn the Israeli "atrocities" instead of "demanding measures against the Palestinian and Lebanese victims of Zionist crimes."

Kawaguchi is expected to arrive in Tehran following her visit to the United Kingdom and Belgium in early May.

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