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Iran offers Iraq its help in ending crisis

TEHRAN, Dec 30 (AFP) - Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi said here Wednesday that Iran was ready to do all it could to end the crisis between Iraq and the international community.

"Iran is ready to put forward every effort to put an end to the crisis," Kharazi said after a meeting with visiting Iraqi deputy speaker Ojeil Jalal Ismail.

Iran is "concerned" about the situation in Iraq and "out of solidarity, the Iranian government is attempting to reduce the sufferings of the Iraqi people," Kharazi told the official IRNA news agency.

Ismail praised Iran's "courageous position" against the US-British air strikes, which he said were "not provided for by any rule or resolution of the United Nations."

Iran condemned the four days of air strikes and said they had discredited the United Nations and its Security Council. Earlier Ismail accused the United States of seeking to impose "the law of the jungle" on the world so it can dominate other countries.

"The United States is seeking to impose the law of the jungle to dominate the world, which is why they have no respect for any international laws or rules," he told Iran's state radio and television.

Ismail, here since Saturday for an official visit, also attacked the UN arms inspectors seeking to uncover Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, accusing them of "spying for the United States, Britain and Israel."

"It has been proven to Iraq that the UN weapons commission had been spying. The day the Americans and the British attacked us, the commission's life came to an end," Ismail told state radio.

He said his country "is not prepared to accept UNSCOM unless the United Nations condemns the aggression and agrees to compensate Iraq for the damage caused."

Ismail held talks with Iran's parliamentary speaker, Ali-Akbar Nateq-Nuri, who also condemned the US-British military strike on Iraq, a country Iran fought a war against from 1980 to 1988.

"The attack was was against international regulations and launched without coordination with the United Nations and the Security Council. It is a sign of America and its allies' bullying attitude," Nateq-Nuri told the official news agency IRNA.

The speaker said his country was "keen to develop its ties with Iraq within the framework of UN resolutions," and insisted the Islamic republic is opposed to Iraq's partition.

Iran and Iraq are yet to sign a formal peace treaty 10 years after the end of their war. The major sticking point remains the issue of prisoners of war and reparations.

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