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No more
excuse for Western invasion in Middle East: Iran
Tuesday May 03, 2011 08:21:11 AM,
RIA Novosti
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Moscow: After killing Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, Western powers no
longer have an excuse for invading Middle Eastern countries, the
ISNA news agency quoted Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin
Mehmanparast as saying.
"Today, the Islamic Republic of Iran believes that no excuse is
left for foreign countries to send forces to the region to fight
terrorism," Mehmanparast said.
"We hope the event (bin Laden's death) would end the war, conflict
and killing of innocent people and help establish peace and calm
in the region," he said.
Bin Laden, the symbol of global terrorism who was behind the 9/11
terrorist attack in the US, was killed in a helicopter raid on his
compound in Abbottabad, some 70km from Pakistani capital
Islamabad.
The operation was carried out by a small special forces team of US
Navy Seals in the early hours of Monday.
Mehmanparast said the operation showed that "there is no need to
send a massive army to confront only one person".
Less then a month after the 9/11 attack, the US sent its troops to
Afghanistan in a bid to capture bin Laden and defeat Al Qaeda and
the Taliban as part of the global war on terror declared by
then-president George Bush.
In 2003, the US invaded Iraq to remove its leader Saddam Hussein,
who was accused of funding terrorist organisations and developing
weapons of mass destruction.
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