{"id":552,"date":"2004-07-04T06:34:02","date_gmt":"2004-07-04T10:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=552"},"modified":"2004-07-04T06:34:02","modified_gmt":"2004-07-04T10:34:02","slug":"pouring-salt-into-a-festering-wound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=552","title":{"rendered":"Pouring salt into a festering wound"},"content":{"rendered":"

TEHRAN (AFP<\/a>) – Tehran has prepared a complaint against Saddam Hussein (news<\/a> – web sites<\/a>) 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. <\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> – web sites<\/a>) war — did not figure on the original list of charges. <\/p>\n

“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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

brooding persian<\/a> continues his thoughts in The kangaroo court<\/b> posted Friday, July 02, 2004.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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