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Iran Won't Help U.S.
Wednesday, September 26, 2001
The Associated Press

Iran did not consider the United States “competent and sincere (enough) to lead any global campaign against terrorism.”

TEHRAN, Iran -- AP
Iran's supreme leader ruled out Iranian help for any U.S.-led attack on neighboring Afghanistan, saying Wednesday that the United States was not “competent” to lead a global campaign and calling U.S. behavior “disgusting.”

In a state-run television address to the nation, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the U.S. administration was “over-expectant” in wanting the whole world to help it following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

“Iran will not participate in any move under U.S. leadership. Iran will not extend any assistance to the U.S. and its allies in attacking the already suffering Muslim neighboring Afghanistan,” Khamenei said in an address to families of soldiers killed in the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.
(More: Arab World News Source)

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