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To: Fred Levine who wrote (67276)	1/7/2003 5:47:56 PM
From: Fred Levine	Respond to of 70976

Iraqi FM's visit to Tehran cancelled: reformist MP Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 2002 IranMania.com TEHRAN, Jan 7 (AFP) - A planned visit by Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri to Tehran was cancelled amid strong opposition from parliament members, a prominent reformist deputy announced Tuesday. ©2002 IranMania & AFP Photo/Behrouz Mehri Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi shakes hands with his Iraqi counterpart Naji Sabri in Tehran in a previous visit on 26 January 2002. "In this sensitive situation, and as the count-down to the end of Saddam (Hussein)'s regime has started, and following protests from deputies, Naji Sabri's visit was cancelled," Nureddin Pirmoazzen said. ©2002 IranMania Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein. He added that a hundred or so deputies had signed a letter threatening to move to impeach Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi if he accepted Sabri's visit, in remarks carried by the students' news agency ISNA. Pirmoazzen said for such a visit to take place, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein must first apologize to Iran and free prisoners of war held since the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq conflict. Sabri's visit was first announced by an internet site close to Iran's conservatives, but a source in the foreign ministry contacted Monday was unaware it was to take place. The announcement comes as Iraqi Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani is holding talks in Tehran, ahead of a meeting of Iraqi opposition groups in Kurdish- controlled northern Iraq to plan for Saddam's eventual overthrow. A visit by Sabri to Tehran in September last year led to widespread complaints here that the Islamic republic was siding with a loser. Iran also has bitter memories of the bloody Iran-Iraq war, when it bore the brunt of Iraq's chemical arsenal and accounted for the bulk of the war's estimated one million dead. Kharazi is already under pressure from MPs, and a week ago was summoned to parliament to explain his allegedly "passive" handling of a dispute on the boundaries of the resource-rich Caspian sea. fred