The new Iraqi government must plan for as quick a withdrawal of the occupiers as possible, senior cleric Ahmad Khatami told Friday prayers worshippers in Tehran.
He said the U.S.-led war on Iraq had a lesson to be learnt. America wanted to create a pillar of democracy in Iraq, but instead it created a pillar of democracy for murder, destruction, and the explosion in the great shrine, he said, in reference to the bombing of a revered Shiite Shrine in the Iraqi city of Samarra in February.
