Iraqi PM heads to Iran seeking "no interference"

ECH1969

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Tue Sep-12-06 02:00 AM
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Iraqi PM heads to Iran seeking "no interference"

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will deliver a blunt message to fellow Shi'ite Islamists in Tehran on Tuesday that they should not interfere in Iraq's affairs.

It is a message that may please Maliki's sponsors in the United States, who accuse Iran of funding and training militants fighting U.S. forces in Iraq, possibly in response to mounting U.S. pressure on Tehran to halt its nuclear programme.

Maliki's spokesman told Reuters Iraqis no longer wanted to suffer for "messages between the United States and Iran".

Some leaders in Tehran are also close to the likes of radical, young cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose Mehdi Army militia is seen as particularly hostile to the occupying forces.

http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=38201

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Tue Sep-12-06 04:15 AM
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1. So this is a sponsership program?

"...Maliki's sponsors..." :wtf:

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