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Wed, 05/04/2011 - 15:50
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Iran's DM Suspicious of Bin Laden's Death
TEHRAN , May 4 (FNA)- Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi questioned the authenticity and reliability of the recent announcement made by the US president about the death of the Al-Qaeda Leader, Osama bin Laden.
"Bin Laden's death report is suspicious in essence since they claim that they have discharged his body in the sea," Vahidi told reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting here in Tehran on Wednesday.
"We should ask why they have not allowed an impartial party to observe this process," he said.
"All these issues display that Americans are troubled in dealing with their strategic issues," he noted.
Elsewhere, Vahidi pointed out that if bin Laden's death announcement is proved to be true, then it would leave no more justification for the United States' continued military presence in the region.
In relevant remarks on Monday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast had also said that the US-led West has no more excuse for invading and occupying the regional countries after the death of bin Laden.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran believes that campaign against terrorism which served as a pretext for the alien countries to invade the region has now vanished," Mehman-Parast said.
Obama announced on Sunday that bin Laden was killed in a US operation in Pakistan.
Obama said he had directed helicopter-borne US armed forces to launch an attack against a heavily fortified compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan on Sunday acting on a lead that first emerged last August.
Senior US officials said that in addition to bin Laden, three adult males died in the raid, two who were believed to be couriers for the Al-Qaeda leader, and one who was said to be one of his adult sons.
One woman who was being used as a human shield was also killed, the officials said.
US officials said that they have dropped bin Laden's body in the Arabian Sea after conducting the necessary postmortem examinations and DNA tests to make sure of his identity.
"Bin Laden's death report is suspicious in essence since they claim that they have discharged his body in the sea," Vahidi told reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting here in Tehran on Wednesday.
"We should ask why they have not allowed an impartial party to observe this process," he said.
"All these issues display that Americans are troubled in dealing with their strategic issues," he noted.
Elsewhere, Vahidi pointed out that if bin Laden's death announcement is proved to be true, then it would leave no more justification for the United States' continued military presence in the region.
In relevant remarks on Monday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast had also said that the US-led West has no more excuse for invading and occupying the regional countries after the death of bin Laden.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran believes that campaign against terrorism which served as a pretext for the alien countries to invade the region has now vanished," Mehman-Parast said.
Obama announced on Sunday that bin Laden was killed in a US operation in Pakistan.
Obama said he had directed helicopter-borne US armed forces to launch an attack against a heavily fortified compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan on Sunday acting on a lead that first emerged last August.
Senior US officials said that in addition to bin Laden, three adult males died in the raid, two who were believed to be couriers for the Al-Qaeda leader, and one who was said to be one of his adult sons.
One woman who was being used as a human shield was also killed, the officials said.
US officials said that they have dropped bin Laden's body in the Arabian Sea after conducting the necessary postmortem examinations and DNA tests to make sure of his identity.
