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Article: US should apologize for attacking holy sites in Iraq: Iranian president
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- May 17, 2004
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US should apologize for attacking holy sites in Iraq: Iranian
president
TEHRAN, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Mohammad Khatami said
on Sunday evening that the US government should apologize for the
damage of holy Shiite Muslim sites in Iraq, the official IRNA news
agency reported on Monday.
"World Muslims, in particular Shiites, will not remain silent in
the face of such aggression, and the US is currently pursuing
dangerous policies that are threatening peace of the world more
greatly than at any other time," IRNA quoted Khatami as saying.
"Washington, on the pretext of anti-terrorism, is interfering in
the domestic affairs of other states, and its discriminatory policies
are ...