Iran defends U.S.-backed Iraqi government

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http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20070124-123419-8773r

Iran defends U.S.-backed Iraqi government

TEHRAN, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is defending the U.S.-backed Iraqi government and warns against attempts to undermine it.

Trying to weaken the Iraqi government is tantamount to "treason for the Iraqi people and Islamic nation," Ahmadinejad said in a telephone conversation with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani Wednesday, according to the official Iranian news agency, IRNA.

He said the stability, security, prosperity and progress of the Iraqi people are achieved "thanks to the efforts of the people and national government of Iraq."

The Iranian president accused U.S. President George W. Bush's new plan for Iraq of attempting to weaken the Iraqi government, saying the strategy was bound to fail and that the Iraqi people will find stability through the efforts of the government.

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1. I agree with him. Shrub is blamin Maliki for everything