Iran: conflict not with Iraq policy, but US
Iraq-Iran-USA, Politics, 10/3/2006

Iran's President Ahmadi-Nejad was asked, "You were insisting at the UN yesterday that the occupiers must leave Iraq, what have you done to ensure Iraq's internal security? It is said that Iran is among the contributors to insecure conditions in Iraq.

Are you ready to cooperate with US restoration of security in Iraq? Ahmadi-Nejad said, "Insecure conditions in Iraq is bad for every one, particularly for the Iranians. We have lived with the Iraqis side by side of one another for over one thousand years. Save for the eight years of the Iraqi-imposed war our relations have always been excellent." "Many Iranians have married Iraqi spouses and vice versa, and when we hear that scores of Iraqis get killed every day it truly breaks our hearts." He said that the regional nations, particularly the Iranians were pleased with the toppling of Saddam by US-led forces, and some people had even assumed that the US administration had changed its policies from pro-Saddam to anti-dictatorship.

Ahmadi-Nejad said, "All the same, the Americans later on began killing the Iraqis and torturing them in post-Saddam era and announced they are in Iraq to stay, not to leave.

"They are building large barracks and as the Iraqi government recently announced, there is sufficient proof that the US forces have direct interference in massacring the Iraqi nation.

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