Iran Urges Iraq To Set Withdrawal Timetable

[sabra]

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/11/AB319F1A-E5DB-4DE5-8CA4-17A5608249BD.html

Iran Urges Iraq To Set Withdrawal Timetable


22 November 2005 -- Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called on visiting Iraqi President Jalal Talabani to prepare a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Iraq.

Iranian state television today quoted Khamenei as holding the United States responsible for acts of terrorism in Iraq.

The Iranian leader promised Iraq -- Iran's former foe -- unlimited cooperation.

The Iraqi president, in return, said Iraq considers its neighboring country a "real friend." He paid tribute to the founder of the Islamic Republic, laying a wreath at the tomb of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

I wonder how the Freepers are handling this one?

[Maggie_May]

1. The Bushies aren't going to like that.

[jaxx]

2. Looks like Iraq listened.

<snip> On Monday, Iraqi Interior Minister Bayan Jabr suggested U.S.-led forces should be able to leave Iraq by the end of next year, saying the one-year extension of the mandate for the multinational force in Iraq by the U.N. Security Council this month could be the last.

"By the middle of next year we will be 75 percent done in building our forces and by the end of next year it will be fully ready," he told the Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20051122/D8E1HV3O0.html

[Javaman]

3. Since when has moron* actually listened or even paid attention...

to what the iraq gov't, or what ever it is, has said?

this is laughable.

Just because the American people and the Iraq people want the US Military out of Iraq, doesn't mean a damn thing to these megalomaniac morons*.

[sabra]

4. More from Reuters: Iran's leader urges Iraqis to tell occupiers to go

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/RON251204.htm

Iran's leader urges Iraqis to tell occupiers to go


TEHRAN, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged visiting Iraqi officials on Tuesday to ask U.S.-led forces to leave their country and pledged Tehran's cooperation in restoring security to Iraq.

Khamenei's meeting with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, the first Iraqi leader to visit Iran for nearly four decades, underscored improving relations between two countries who fought a gruelling 1980-1988 war in which hundreds of thousands died.

U.S. and British officials have often accused Iran of meddling in Iraq's affairs by arming militant groups.

But Khamenei said violence in Iraq was the fault of the U.S.-led forces who are there.

[bemildred]

5. Isn't this nice?

It's always good to see two former enemies getting along now.

[sabra]

6. remember * is a uniter not a divider...

peace.