Posted on 02/07/2005 10:53:36 AM PST by NormsRevenge
RIYADH (AFP) - Delegates from the United States and archfoe Iran engaged in a "heated" exchange at a counter-terrorism conference in Saudi Arabia, the local media reported but a US official insisted the encounter was "professional."
"The exchange that took place in the first general assembly was a professional one reflecting differences in views between the US and Iranian delegations," a US embassy spokesperson in Riyadh told AFP.
But the English-daily Saudi Gazette said the Iranian and US delegations at the closed-door conference were reportedly "locked in a heated exchange... when the issue of what constitutes terrorism arose."
Diplomatic sources told AFP that Saturday's address by US Homeland Security Advisor Frances Townsend had prompted the head of the Iranian delegation to give a speech in response. There were no details on the content of his speech.
In her address, Townsend said she invoked US President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s remarks from his State of the Union speech in which said Iran "remains the world's primary state sponsor of terror."
But a member of the Iranian delegation said the US accusations were "baseless," adding that "Iran is a country that has been negatively affected by terrorism throughout the past two decades."
Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz opened the four-day conference Saturday with a call for the establishment of an international center to combat terrorism.
Washington -- decried in Iran as the Great Satan -- cut diplomatic relations with Tehran shortly after the 1979 Islamic revolution.
The two powers have engaged in increasingly barbed exchanges as US officials continue to voice concern about the Iranian nuclear programme.
 Diplomatic sources told AFP that Saturday's address by US Homeland Security Advisor Frances Townsend, seen here 05 February 2005 had prompted the head of the Iranian delegation to give a speech in response. There were no details on the content of his speech(AFP/File/Rabih Moghrabi) |
Maybe because, if they were completely honest, the US delegation would have begun with "The best way to stop terrorism would be to fry all of you."
In other words, they talked business rather than discuss their feeeeeeeeelings.
...and the Iranians, mortified at being forced to meet and address an uncovered and unaccompanied female, promptly phoned home and ordered their military installations to put fresh paint on the American flags on their marching fields so as to daily show their superiority by marching in goose step over the Great Satan.... as they have done since 1979.
The prince's "international center to combat terrorism," might well be built in Tehran. It'd make a good target...
HAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!
Yeah, it wasn't "warm and fluffy"!
Hehehehehehehe!
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