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Article: US troops in Iraq worsens Iraqi crisis: Iranian president
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- January 12, 2005
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US troops in Iraq worsens Iraqi crisis: Iranian president
ABUJA, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- The continued presence of Americans is
worsening the Iraqi crisis, visiting Iranian President Mohammad
Khatami said here Wednesday.
"Today in Iraq, instead of peace, there is increased terror and
instability. We are against these continuous attacks," Khatami said.
Giving a lecture entitled "Harmony, peace, equality and tolerance
in a heterogeneous society" in Nigerian capital Abuja, Khatami
affirmed his country's quest for peace, but said that such could only
be rooted on the basis of justice.
He challenged the United States to talk about cohesion, saying
that the world must rise against violence and ...