Iran-US-Report
The Islamic Republic of Iran on Wednesday referred to the annual report by the US State Department on terrorism as baseless accusations against Iran.

Foreign Ministry spokesman, Mohammad-Ali Hosseini, told reporters that the report is based on accusations against Iran's move to render political and spiritual support to the defenseless and oppressed Palestinian nation.

Washington considers support for the Palestinians' legitimate defense as a "terrorist act", while its vast support for the Zionist regime and its crimes is equal to complicity in that regime's state terrorism, he added.

Such reports aim to justify the inhuman act of the US
administration in the Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and the US-run Abu Ghraib detention center in Iraq, Hosseini said.

"The acts which are aimed at concealing their numerous crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan lack any value or credit," he said.

Hosseini reiterated that the international community as well as different world countries have found out that expansion of terrorism throughout the globe is the result of expansionist and hegemonic policies of Washington.

Asked about the US allegations about training of a group of Shiite Iraqi extremists by Lebanese Hizbollah forces in a camp near Tehran, he said, "The US has always made accusations against the Islamic Republic, the baseless nature of which has been repeatedly proved."
Raising anti-Iran allegations has seriously damaged the US prestige, he said, stressing, "The Islamic Republic of Iran has always made efforts to turn Iraq into a stable and secure country." On intensification of US attacks against Iraqi civilians and massacre of a large number of defenseless Iraqis by the US forces, Hosseini stressed that in a statement issued by the Islamic Republic, Tehran has expressed its grave concern over military operations of the US forces against the Iraqi nation.

Tehran expects the Iraqi government to prevent military operations of the US occupation forces against its nation, Hosseini reiterated.