Relieved Iran lauds hanging of Saddam

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TEHRAN (AFP) - Iranians have hailed the hanging of former Iraqi leader
Saddam Hussein as deserved punishment for a man they revile for starting a devastating eight-year war against the Islamic republic.

Top foreign affairs officials and ordinary Iranians alike, many of them veterans of the 1980-1988 conflict, applauded the execution even though Saddam was never tried over the Iran- Iraq war.

"With regards to Saddam's execution, the Iraqi people are the victorious ones, as they were victorious when Saddam fell," Deputy Foreign Minister Hamid Reza Asefi said, according to the IRNA news agency.

Saddam attacked the Islamic republic in 1980 in a bid of grab control of Iran's oil-rich west, sparking an eight-year war that cost around one million lives on both sides.

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