Iran Condemns US-British Air Attacks On Iraq

London, 19Feb2001

Iran's foreign ministry condemned on Monday the latest US-British air strikes against Iraq as "unacceptable" calling the raids "one-sided and inexplicable," the official IRNA news agency reported. "We regret the carnage of innocent Iraqis and we condemn it," Hamid-Reza Assefi told a Tehran press conference. US and British fighters bombed radar and military command centers near Baghdad late Friday, killing three people and injuring 30 others, according to official Iraqi television. The US and Britain said they bombed five military targets around Baghdad to take out Iraqi radar posts used to coordinate surface-to-air missile attacks against their aircraft patrolling southern Iraq.