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Iran ayatollah blames US for bombings { August 19 2005 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=34517&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=34517&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs US to blame for Iraq bombings: Iran's Leader Friday, August 19, 2005 - ©2005 IranMania.com LONDON, August 19 (IranMania) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday denied fresh US allegations that Iran was linked to bombings in Iraq, and instead pointed the finger at US occupying forces. "We support the government of Iraq. We are very disturbed by the lack of secutity in Iraq, especially the daily killings of the Iraqi people," Khamenei said in a sermon at Tehran University, AFP reported. "American machine-guns are criminal, but those elements who plant bombs are also criminals," he added. US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday that US forces had found Iranian weapons inside Iraq on more than one occasion over the past couple of months, accusing Tehran of seeking to replicate its own Islamic regime in Iraq by backing insurgents. The previous week a US intelligence official told AFP last week that Washington believes at least one cache of newly manufactured bombs came from Iran's Revolutionary Guards. But Khamenei said the United States was behind the regular bombings, arguing that Washington needed a "pretext" to stay put in Iraq. "For us, the prime suspect in these incidents is America, because terrorism in Iraq functions under the eyes of the US. Thousands of Americans forces are spread across Iraq and if they wanted to eradicate insecurity they could have," he said. "There are some signs which point to the spy services of the US and Zionist regime (Israel). They do not want this (Iraqi) government to be successful, because insecurity is their pretext to stay," he added. "Accusing Iran and Syria," he said, "cannot clear themselves." Iran was also "firm in letting no one infiltrate" Iraq even though the two country share a 1,300-kilometre (810 mile) border, but explained that "even the Americans cannot stop the Mexicans cross their border". Khamenei meanwhile hailed the pullout from the Gaza Strip by Israel, a country which Iran refuses to recognise, as a "defeat" for the Jewish state. "This evacuation has not come about as the result of a choice by the Zionist regime. It is a defeat and they do it because they had no other choice," he said. "It was because of the Palestinian resistance. First we saw the victory of the Lebanese resistance, and now we see this evacuation," he said, referring to the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon in 2000.

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