Posted on 02/27/2002 12:50:32 PM PST by knighthawk
BERLIN (AP) - Iran, denounced by President Bush as part of an "axis of evil," urged U.S. allies Wednesday to lobby the American administration against unilateral military action in the war on terrorism.
No world power should simply "declare someone as a terrorist and use its military muscle against them," Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said before talks with his German counterpart, Joschka Fischer.
"The friends of the United States have to advise them that, instead of unilateralism, they should stick to multilateralism," Kharrazi told reporters. He spoke during a two-day visit to Berlin to discuss Afghanistan and the Middle East with German officials.
Fischer made no comment. Germany has strongly backed the United States in the war in Afghanistan, but Fischer is among a number of European officials who have cautioned the Bush administration against expecting automatic support for military action elsewhere.
In his State of the Union address last month, Bush labeled Iran, Iraq and North Korea part of an "axis of evil" that supports terrorism and seeks to develop weapons of mass destruction, warning them to stop or face consequences.
Speculation about the next major step in the U.S. campaign has focused on Iraq, but Iran was also angered.
On Tuesday, Iran's legislature approved a budget bill containing unspecified spending to counter U.S. policy, state-run Tehran radio said. The allocation will be used to "discover and thwart U.S. plots and its acts of interference in Iran's internal affairs and also file suits with international bodies against the United States, legislator Hassan Ramezanianpour said.
Some U.S. allies criticized Bush for denouncing Iran, saying he alienated politicians and citizens who are pressing the ruling hard-line clergy to expand democracy.
Iran's ties with Germany and other European countries are friendlier than with the United States.
On Tuesday, Kharrazi met German parliament president Wolfgang Thierse and said they agreed "that it's only in an international effort that terrorism can be dealt with."
He also repeated Iran's rejection of U.S. allegations that it was destabilizing neighboring Afghanistan as a new post-Taliban political order takes shape under Western-backed interim leader Hamid Karzai, who completed a visit to Iran on Tuesday.
"The friends of the United States have to advise them that, instead of unilateralism, they should stick to multilateralism," Kharrazi told reporters. He spoke during a two-day visit to Berlin to discuss Afghanistan and the Middle East with German officials.
If I didn't know any better I'd say that Iran realizes that Dubya means business and isn't going to put up with any nonsense.
And Hezbollah. And harboring terrorists.
When I'm done with my list, I'll let Iran know.
"All you men who don't wanna get killed, better clear on out the back."
Screw Iran.
What maroons.
It's not our fight. Both sides over there hate each other. Neither side is willing to make the concessions required to achieve a lasting peace. We can't solve their problems for them if they aren't willing to help themselves.
Iranians better be hearing this: maybe the Soviets fooled us into such psychobable matrix pre-definition type blackmail, but a bunch of arab fascists will not be able to repeat the same technique again on the US, especialy after 911.
In fact, Iran is insulting the West and America's intelligence right now and should be nuked just for that. I am sick and tired of the faggits.
He went on to add "We say this because we know full well that all of you bootlicking Liberals would completely hinder anything being done to us Terroris....errr....Peace loving Islamists."
Iranians aren't arabs, are they?
The State is a poor philosopher.
"Diplomacy is the art of telling someone to go to hell such that they'll look forward to the trip."
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