Iran refutes UK defense secretary's allegations
Iraq-Iran-UK, Politics, 10/23/2007

The allegations made by the British defense secretary before the House of Commons are aimed at justifying illegitimate occupation of Iraq, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said yesterday.

He said that presence of occupation forces including UK troops in Iraq over the past four years has inflicted irreparable losses on the Iraqi people.

"Several thousand Iraqi civilians have been killed and infrastructure of the country has been destroyed over the past four years," he said.

He said that the presence of British troops in Afghanistan entailed the same plight for the Afghan people, adding that they are responsible for their provocative actions including indiscriminate bombardment of civilian targets and destruction of residential areas in different provinces of Afghanistan.

Citing the British troops' performance in Afghanistan, Hosseini said that the UK encouraged poppy cultivation and drug trafficking in Afghanistan and was engaged in negotiations with bandits and smugglers.

He said that Britain's approach toward regional states and sale of weapons to certain states and its unconditional support for the US during Israeli aggression on Lebanon in July-August 2006 has caused dissent in public opinion of the Middle East nations.

Hosseini called on the United Nations to monitor the UK's "destructive role" in Afghanistan and Iraq and bring to justice the occupiers responsible for massacre of Iraqis and Afghan people.

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