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Wed May 4, 2011 1:42PM
Iran's Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi says Osama bin Laden's death leaves no excuse for the US to remain in the region and that it should promptly withdraw its forces in the region.
“By announcing the news of bin Laden's death, the US tried to claim that they have been successful, but with a closer look at news reports and other relevant issues, we notice that this has been a major failure for the Americans,” Brigadier General Vahidi said on Wednesday.
In televised remarks broadcast nationwide in the US on Sunday, President Barack Obama announced that bin Laden had been killed in a US operation in Pakistan.
Vahidi added that the US invaded Afghanistan under the pretext of killing bin Laden, using the same excuse to stay and wage war in Iraq, and even engaging Pakistan in the war effort, IRNA reported.
According to reported statistics, noted Vahidi, these US-led wars took over a million lives and inflicted more than a trillion dollars in military expenditures on the Americans, Vahidi said.
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