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To: sciAticA errAticA who wrote (32967)	5/3/2003 5:03:19 PM
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Iranian cleric urges Iraqi suicide attacks 04.05.2003 [00:29] A leading Iranian cleric urged Iraqis to use suicide attacks to expel U.S. forces from Iraq and learn from Iran's Islamic revolution to set up a new government. "The Iraqi people have reached the conclusion that they have no option but to launch an intefadeh (uprising) and resort to martyrdom operations to expel the United States from Iraq," Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati told worshippers during Friday sermons in Tehran. President Bush announced the end of major combat operations in Iraq on Thursday, but said U.S.-led coalition forces would remain there to restore order and establish a democratic government. "Somebody — who has might but not logic — does not have dignity nor shame and doesn't listen to anybody," Jannati said, in an apparent reference to the Bush administration. His speech was broadcast live on Tehran radio. Jannati, who heads Iran's powerful Guardian Council, said Iraqis should learn from Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution to establish a Shiite Muslim-controlled government. "I urge the Iraqi people to remain united, follow clerics, make nonstop efforts to expel the enemy from Iraq's unsoiled land and establish an Islamic government ... This is the way. They (Iraqis) should learn from Iran's Islamic revolution," he said. The power vacuum left in Iraq by Saddam Hussein's ouster has created competition between Iran and the United States for influence over Iraq's future government. Iran's anti-American clerics say a free vote in Iraq would produce a Shiite-led Islamic government. Washington says Iraqis are free to choose their own government — as long as it's not an Iranian-style theocracy. Shiites form more than 60% of Iraq's population. A free vote in Iraq might produce an Islamic-oriented government with close ties to Iran's governing Shiite clerics. Iraq was previously controlled by Saddam's Sunni Muslim regime. The United States has accused Iran of meddling in Iraq. Iran's foreign minister rejected those charges, saying Iran only wants to see a democratic government in Baghdad, not one installed by America. www1.iraqwar.ru