TEHRAN (AFP) – Tehran has prepared a complaint against Saddam Hussein (news – web sites) for his 1980 attack on Iran and use of chemical weapons, and will soon file the dossier with the Iraqi tribunal trying the former president, the foreign ministry said.
“One of the crimes of Saddam Hussein is the attack against Iran, the deaths of Iranians, the use of chemical weapons. We have prepared a complaint which will be filed to the tribunal,” foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said.
Urging the Iraqi court to “act with transparency and in a public manner,” Asefi also complained that Saddam’s 1980 land grab — which sparked the catastrophic 1980-88 Iran-Iraq (news – web sites) war — did not figure on the original list of charges.
“We have asked the Iraqis to explain why the attack on Iran did not feature among the charges against him, even though the judge said the question would be addressed at a later date,” Asefi said.
brooding persian continues his thoughts in The kangaroo court posted Friday, July 02, 2004.
The Bush administration, in a hurry to spin something positive of their amoral invasion in time for the 2004 elections, are about to pour the equivalent of the salt flats into a festering wound.
Again, the only people willing to buy it, will be the self-centered and blinkered faction of the American public that has yet to be handed indisputable reason to boast about this tragedy.