Iran urges Arab countries to eject U.S. military

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Iran urges Arab countries to eject U.S. military

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JIM KRANE

Associated Press

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Iran's top national security official urged his Arab neighbours Tuesday to eject the U.S. military from American bases in the region and instead join Tehran in a regional security alliance.

Ali Larijani told Arab leaders attending a conference here that Washington is indifferent to their interests and will cast them aside as soon as they are no longer useful.

“The security and stability of the region needs to be attained and we should do it inside the region, not through bringing in foreign forces,” Mr. Larijani told an audience of business and political leaders from the Arab world and elsewhere, including the United States. “We should stand on our own feet.”

The speech was one of the most explicit expressions yet of rising Iranian assertiveness in its contest with the United States for influence in the region.
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Many Sunni Arab countries, such as Saudi Arabia, have expressed misgivings about the growing influence of the Persian Shiite-dominated government in Tehran, which once sought to export its Islamic revolution and topple neighbouring governments.

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