IRAN SAYS EXECUTION THE “VERY LEAST” SADDAM DESERVES
Iran said a death sentence was the “very least” punishment that should be handed down to its one-time foe former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
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Iran said a death sentence was the “very least” punishment that should be handed down to its one-time foe former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
“Execution is the very least sentence they can hand down to Saddam Hussein,” Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said on the day the verdict in the trial of Saddam and former cohorts was due to be delivered.
Hosseini said a possible death sentence by hanging against Saddam “does not mean the investigations into other crimes, especially during the eight-year war, should be forgotten.”
He recalled that Iran had lodged a complaint with the Iraqi government against Saddam over the war, “and they promised to consider it but not in this court which is not able to do so but in another court.”
“Execution is the very least sentence they can hand down to Saddam Hussein,” Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said on the day the verdict in the trial of Saddam and former cohorts was due to be delivered.
Hosseini said a possible death sentence by hanging against Saddam “does not mean the investigations into other crimes, especially during the eight-year war, should be forgotten.”
He recalled that Iran had lodged a complaint with the Iraqi government against Saddam over the war, “and they promised to consider it but not in this court which is not able to do so but in another court.”
— SOURCES
- (Sources: AFP, 05/11/2006)
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