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Iran confirms al-Qaida bombing threats

Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi on Monday confirmed bombing threats made by terror network al-Qaida against Iran to avenge what has been rumored as Tehran having given tips to capture former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein."Iran has always been a victim of terrorism, especially posed by al-Qaida. The Islamic Republic will take any necessary step to protect the country's security," Kharrazi said.


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Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi on Monday confirmed bombing threats made by terror network al-Qaida against Iran to avenge what has been rumored as Tehran having given tips to capture former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein."Iran has always been a victim of terrorism, especially posed by al-Qaida. The Islamic Republic will take any necessary step to protect the country's security," Kharrazi said.

Referring to Saddam's fate, Kharrazi said, "it is up to the Iraqi people to decide how and where to try Saddam for his crimes against humanity."

He said Tehran is still reeling from a destructive war with Iraq between 1980 and 1988, imposed under Saddam and marked by the Baath regime blatantly using chemical and biological weapons against Iranians as well as the Iraqi Kurds.

"Saddam, with his actions and aggression, trampled the rights of the Iraqi, Iranian and Kuwaiti nations," Kharrazi said, referring to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Kharrazi also renewed Iran's denunciation of unilateral US sanctions against the Islamic Republic as well as Washington's freewheeling policies regarding international terrorism."Sanctions are not effective tools against countries; they are politically-motivated. America is acting in a discriminatory fashion in dealing with world countries," he said.

"America believes in the policy of 'you are either with us or against us'. This is a wrong policy. America must respect the beliefs, expediency and national interests of all countries in order to take steps for more cooperation (of world countries)," he added.


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