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Iranian Diplomat Blasts US for Violation of Int'l Treaties

One of the freed Iranian diplomats who was in US custody for more than two years in Iraq lashed out at Washington for violating the international treaties by abducting other countries' diplomats. 
 
  
"The US forces violated all the international pacts by kidnapping us and they should account for their actions and the overt and open abduction of us," Mahmoud Farhadi who is also the commercial advisor to the governor of western province of Kermanshah told FNA at the airport Sunday night.

The five diplomats and Iranian consulate staffers were kidnapped in Arbil, Soleimanieh and Baghdad by the US forces in January 2007; they were released after more than two years of incarceration last week and handed over to the Iranian embassy in Baghdad on Thursday night.

Farhadi urged the Iranian government to sue the Americans responsible for his kidnapping through international circles and the UN to prevent such moves worldwide by the outlaws - an allusion to the United States.

In the meantime, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki reiterated on Sunday that Tehran will reserve its right to sue the former White House officials for the US troops' attack on Iran's consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil and abduction of several Iranian diplomats.

"The Foreign Ministry and Government of the Islamic Republic reserve the right for raising a case against the (former US President) George Bush's administration for its savage action and raid on Iran's consulate in Arbil and abduction of Iranian diplomats," Mottaki said after receiving the five Iranian diplomats here in Tehran.