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Iran will resist US pressure: Kharrazi

IRNA

 Berlin, May 31, IRNA -- Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi on    
Saturday vowed that his country would continue to resist American     
pressures to succumb to Washington's demands.                         
    "We will also resist this pressure from the United States,"       
Kharrazi was quoted as saying in an interview with the weekly Der     
Spiegel magazine, due to hit newsstands Monday.                       
    The minister strongly rejected American allegations that Iran was 
providing safe-haven to members of the Al-Qaeda terror network.       
    "We have fought the organization, have arrested its members and   
sent them back home," Kharrazi said.                                  
    He pointed out that Iran harshly condemned the September 11, 2001 
US terror attacks as 'naked terrorism'.                               
    As to US accusations that Iran has been intervening in the        
political developments in post-war Iraq, Kharrazi said the events     
after the fall of the old regime indicated US 'ignorance' about the   
conditions in Baghdad.                                                
    "The United States only sees that things are not going in Iraq the
way it wishes. The US soldiers are occupiers who have no business     
being in Iraq," he said.                                              
    "It (US) is looking for guilty parties, the way it always does,"  
Kharrazi added.                                                       
/HZ/AH/AR                                                             
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