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| Iran condemns bombing |
| 2001-10-09 |
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, condemned the American air strikes on Afghanistan yesterday even as Iranian diplomats sat down in Geneva with their US counterparts to discuss options for the country if the Taliban regime falls. ... "We condemn the attack on the country and the people of Afghanistan," state television showed the ayatollah telling clerics at the prayer hall at his residence in central Tehran yesterday. "Death to America, death to Israel," the congregation chanted. "How is this oppression justified? How can you allow innocent civilians to be killed or injured and many more to be forced to leave their homes to take refuge in the wilderness, starving without food?" Mr Khamenei asked, adding that Washington's aim was not to combat terrorism. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |