Has the US government given any official reaction to the interview VOA did with this guy Rigi?
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Iran slams VOA talk to wanted terrorist
Mon, 09 Apr 2007 23:07:44
Spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry Mohammad Ali Hosseini has deplored the VOA interview with one of Iran's most wanted terrorist and drugs trafficker Abdul Malik Rigi.
Hosseini said the interview by the Persian Service of Voice of America (VOA) with the notorious terrorist was a clear manifestation of the American double standard treatment of its so-called "anti-terrorism campaign".
He said the VOA interviewed the man despite its full knowledge that he was wanted in Iran for running a drug trafficking gang and his leading role in the kidnapping and slaughtering of innocent civilians and law enforcement.
He said Washington's behavior towards the terrorist Mojahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) in the past could also be cited as another example of its double standard policies.
Hosseini said the U.S. sought to create insecurity in Iran and pave the way for the bloodshed of its innocent citizens via its propaganda apparatus which he termed as "disgusting" and "doomed to fail."
He said such attempts were clear examples of efforts to encourage terrorism and fuel ethnic conflicts.
The Foreign Ministry Spokesman said Iran regarded the interview as interference in its domestic affairs and a clear violation of the Algiers accord and strongly condemned it.
Hosseini stressed that Iran preserved the right to take legal action on the issue.
VOA Persian Service TV, recently held a phone interview for the first time with Abdul Malik Rigi, the head of the terrorist cult called Jondollah.
Rigi, who is responsible for the death and injury of more than 50 ethnic Baluchi Iranians, has so far killed and taken hostage several Iranian border guards. In his latest terrorist operation in the city of Zahedan in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, he planted a bomb in a couch carrying the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps staff home from work, killing 11.
Iran says the United States harbors and trains Rigi gang members to carry out terrorist operations inside Iran and to destabilize the country by supporting separatist movements.
The United States also funds the terror group in a bid to sow discord among Iran's ethnic communities. The CIA supplies cash and weapons to the group to resort to terrorist methods.
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