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Tehran wants US apology over errant missile landing
12:01 GMT, 27 January 1999
TEHRAN, Jan 27 (AFP) -Iran's
Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi called
on the United States on Wednesday
to apologize over the landing of an
Iraq-bound missile in an Iranian
border town.
"The United States should present
its apologies and repair the damage
incurred," state radio quoted Kharazi
as saying. "The US government
must repair the moral damage it has
inflicted on Iran for the violation of
its air space."
The minister warned that Iran's
armed forces "will respond to any
aggression and defend the country,"
but did not elaborate.
Iran's parliamentary speaker
Ali-Akbar Nateq Nuri accused the
United States on Wednesday of
threatening his country's national
security after the landing of the
stray missile on the outskirts of
Abadan on Monday.
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