Hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Wednesday warned the U.S. against military intervention in Libya, saying such action would create a graveyard for its soldiers.
Hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Wednesday warned the
U.S.
against military intervention in
Libya
,
saying such action would create a graveyard for its soldiers.
Ahmadinejad, under whose presidency animosity between
Tehran
and
Washington
has
heightened, said the current situation was completely different to what it was
during the tenure of former
U.S.
president George W. Bush.
"[Bush] used a deception named September 11 to prepare the ground to
invade
Iraq
and
Afghanistan
,"
Ahmadinejad said at a public speech in the western
province
of
Lorestan
.
"Be warned that if you intervene militarily one more time, in any of the
countries in North Africa or the Middle East, the regional nations will rise
and dig the graves of your soldiers," he said, referring to reports that
the West was weighing up military option to oust Libyan strongman Moammar
Gadhafi.
Ahmadinejad, in his speech broadcast live on state television, reiterated all
the regional "dictators" were backed by the U.S.
"Today, they (the U.S. and its allies) claim they are confronting
dictators...[But] everywhere in the world, in all of the Muslim world, in all
of the Middle East, wherever there is a dictator, he is backed by them,"
he said.
"And now they come and say they want to support the people...but your
plans have been derailed...today no one recognizes your claim of supporting the
people."
The statement came in response to reports that the West, including the
U.S.
, was
considering the military option against Gadhafi's embattled regime.
However, such intervention was looking less likely on Wednesday after U.S.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said "there is no unanimity within NATO for
the use of armed force" against Gadhafi.
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