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Talabani slams Iran, Turkey interference
16.5.2006
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BEIRUT, Lebanon,
May 16 , -- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani lashed
out at neighbors Iran and Turkey for interfering in
Iraq's domestic affairs, warning Baghdad could
reciprocate.
Talabani was quoted as saying Tuesday in Saudi daily
Al-Sharq al-Awsat that "Iraq is not a weak country.
The neighbors can create problems for us and we also
are capable of causing problems for them."
He said, "if Iran allows itself to interfere in
Karbala because it is a Shiite city and Turkey feels
it can interfere in Kirkuk, that will open the way
for very dangerous consequences."
"In that case," he added, "Iraq will also have the
right to interfere in Khozestan in Iran on the
grounds that it has an Arab population and the same
applies to Alexandrite in Turkey which has an Arab
population." |
Iraqi
President : Jalal Talabani, a Kurd
Photo: Military |
Talabani stressed, however, that Iraq and Iran have
had historic relations which were both positive and
negative "but there is always room for agreement and
also between Iraq and Turkey agreement is possible."
He acknowledged that the two countries have
plausible reasons to interfere in Iraq since the
Kurdistan Labor Party attacks Turkey from Iraq's
Kurdish north; a Kurdish group in Iran has done the
same, taking refuge in Kurdistan (northern Iraq).
"Nevertheless, we need to find a solution in order
to eliminate all the pretexts used by Iran and
Turkey to hit Iraqi territories," he added.
UPI
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