IRNA -- `Iran News' on Saturday focused on Thursday's visit to Iran of French Minister of Foreign Affairs Dominique de Villepin, the outspoken critic in the trio that oppposed the US-led war on Iraq. The swift conclusion of the war and the obvious defeat of the anti-war coalition, speaks much of the motives behind the French foreign minister's visit. "One of the objectives of the de Villepin visit to the region is gaining support of Iran, Turkey and Jordan for future regional cooperation in the face of U.S. hegemony," pointed out the daily. "Following the U.S. military success in Iraq and the opposition of French officials to the U.S. operations in that country, the French know that they will have to be resigned to the loss of their interests in Baghdad." De Villepin arrived in Tehran Thursday at the end of a three-nation regional tour which took him first to Turkey and then to Jordan.
| Yep. Time to go find some more interests. Can't have the Merkins grabbing off all the good stuff, and there's lot of repressive regimes that'll be happy to do business as usual with La Belle France. |
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