Iran Condemns US “Kidnapping” of Its “Diplomats”
Iran has accused US troops of kidnapping five of its diplomats who were arrested in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil. The US has denied the men were diplomats -- it says the men were members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and were in Iraq illegally supplying weapons to Shia insurgents.
Hassan Kazimi Qomi, Iran’s ambassador to Iraq, called the arrests “a violation of Iraqi sovereignty and an insult to the Iraqi people.” He said the “kidnapped” men were engaged in legitimate tasks. “These men are part of the armed, plain-clothes section of the Iranian diplomatic corps,” Qomi asserted. “Our diplomats are not fops who sit around drinking tea with the pompous prigs other nations send to represent them. They roll up their sleeves and get down to work, people-to-people, helping them get what they need.”
Qomi defended the diplomats’ distribution of weapons. “As anyone can see, Iraq is a violent place,” Qomi observed. “When our Muslim brothers beg for our help, would you have us turn them down?”
Qomi demanded the men’s release and the return of the weapons seized. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill) concurred, calling the incident “another chapter in the big book of American war crimes in the so-called war on terror.”
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Someday, Turban Durbin's mouth is going to write a check that his neck will have to cash.