Iran Slams U.S. 'Ill-considered' Terror Charge Against Tehran

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Iran Slams U.S. 'Ill-considered' Terror Charge Against Tehran

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Iran on Tuesday decried the remarks by U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice on Tehran's support for terrorism as "ill-considered" allegations against the Islamic Republic, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi noted that Iran's foreign policy is based on the axis of stabilization of international peace and security, rejection of the weapons of mass destruction and terrorism and are transparent and crystal clear.

Asefi was using the word "axis" to counter the previous day's charge by Rice that Iran's support for terrorism and its attempts to develop weapons of mass destruction placed it squarely in the " axis of evil."

The U.S. officials need to present a real definition of the word "terrorism" on the basis of a single standard and free from unilateralism and self-interest, the Iranian spokesman said.

The present U.S. policy against Iran is an "old and defeated policy of sowing discord," he said, adding that its belligerent words and actions are aimed at independent nations and the structure of the international system.

The U.S. hardline policies and approaches have more than ever isolated itself, he warned.

There have been no diplomatic relations between the United States and Iran since the two countries severed their ties in 1980, after Iranian students stormed the American embassy in Tehran in 1979 and took its staff hostage for 444 days.

U.S. President George W. Bush, in his State of the Union address in January, for the first time branded Iran, together with Iraq and the Democratic People Republic of Korea, as an "axis of evil," accusing Iran of attempting to develop weapons of mass destruction, providing assistance to al-Qaeda and Taliban fugitives and destabilizing the interim Afghan government.

Those anti-Iran remarks have ever since triggered waves of condemnations from Iranian officials and people from all walks of life.

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