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US, Iran dispute at UN Security Council

27 February 2009 15:32 (UTC +04:00)

New Yorkâ€“APA. US ambassador to UN Susan Rice accused Tehran of supporting terrorism and attempting to develop nuclear weapons in a speech to the UN Security Council during a session on Iraq, APA reports.

Iran’s UN envoy, Mohammad Khazaee, said Rice’s remarks were a repetition of the same ’groundless accusations’ against Iran that the previous US administration had made.

"It is unfortunate that, yet again, we are hearing the same tired, unwarranted and groundless allegations that used to be unjustifiably and futilely repeated by the previous US administration," Khazaee said in a letter to the council’s president, Japanese Ambassador, Yukio Takasu.

"Instead of raising allegations against others, the United States had better take concrete and meaningful steps in correcting its past wrong policies and practices vis-Ã -vis other nations, including the Islamic Republic of Iran," Khazaee added.