Tuesday, November 24, 2015

OAN — Iran Says U.S. Has Plan To Divide Iraq, Pleads With Iraqis To Resist

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday accused the United States of trying to divide Iraq along sectarian and ethnic lines and urged Iraqis to withstand any such plans.…
“The Americans must not be allowed to consider Iraq as their personal property … and dare to openly talk about disintegration of Iraq,” Khamenei said according to his website.
“The Iraqi people, Shi’ites, Sunnis, Kurds and Arabs have been living together peacefully but some regional countries and some foreigners are trying to amplify differences among them,” he added.…
In August, outgoing U.S. Army chief of staff General Ray Odierno drew condemnation from Baghdad and Tehran when he said reconciliation between Shi’ites and Sunnis in Iraq was becoming harder and that partitioning the country “might be the only solution.”…
During a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, Khamenei called for closer bilateral ties between Tehran and Moscow to thwart what he called “Washington’s plots”.
OAN
Iran Says U.S. Has Plan To Divide Iraq, Pleads With Iraqis To Resist
Bozorgmehr Sharafedin

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