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Iraqi govt despotic: Rafsanjani
TEHRAN. Feb 12: President All Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani denounced the Iraqi government Monday as despotic and won resounding public support for his policy of neutrality in the Gulf war. reports Reuter.
Rafsanjani's mediation effort has been coolly received' by Baghdad. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein did not mention the Iranian proposals in a defiant speech on Sunday.
The Iranian President told crowds marking the 12th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution that both sides were fighting for an unjust cause.
He said Iran's neutral stance was Just "when a large number of world states have aligned themselves with the US aggressor and a few others have approved the illegal takeover of Independent Kuwait due to their subservience to another despotic power."
An estimated half a million people braved sub-zero temperatures and roared approval of Rafsanjani’s remarks during a rally in Tehran's Azadi ( freedom) square.
Rafsanjani turned the occasion into a display of support for his government's policy on the war. "Rafsanjani's government embodies the hope of our nation. " marchers chanted.
They called for Iraq's unconditional withdrawal from Kuwait and the departure of foreign troops from the region.
Iraq said Monday it would never accept a ceasefire with the US-led forces In the war.
Slogans by the Tehran demonstrators reflected the anti- American thrust of the revolution led by the late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Shouts of 'death to America" and “death to Israel- rang out in the square and the marchers warned the Jewis state of Muslims' revenge if it intervened in the war against Iraq.
But there was no support for the Baghdad government in its fight against the US-led alliance although Rafsanjani con-
demned the Allies for hitting civilian targets.
The Iranian News Agency IRNA said millions throughout the country market the anniversary of the revolution which toppled the Pro-western Shah and turned Iran into a centre of Islamic fundamentalism.
“The only way to continue the divine revolution and to liberate world nations from the flaws of oppressors and tyrants is the rule of real Islam... " said a statement read out at the end of the Tehran rally.
" IRNA correspondent watching the rally from a helicopter reported that the sprawling Azadi Square and its surrounding streets were packed up to a radius of several kilometres.' the agency saki.
The marchers called for a stronger Iranian military to counter "The treacherous plots and stratagems of the enemies of Islam and revolution Ted by global arrogance (America)."
IRNA said elderly people from the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war also took part tn the rally.