Mottaki says US unlikely to create another crisis

Tehran, June 17, IRNA - Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Monday that US administration has suffered several failures in decision making over the Persian Gulf and it is unlikely to create another crisis at the expense of the American tax payers.

Mottaki made the remarks responding to a question posed by
participants in the 18th international conference on Persian Gulf
opened this morning.

Asked whether the US will be the initiator of a third war in the
region due to the anti-Iran propaganda launched by the US mass media,
he said, "A kind of vacuum has appeared in the US policy-making since
the Congress elections.

Opinion polls carried by the US agencies indicated that over 80
percent of people in the Persian Gulf region hate Washington policies
in the region, he said.

"Hatred towards the Bush policies has even been on the rise in the
European states."
President George W Bush should know that it is his performance in the
Middle East region that has resulted in such a feeling towards his
country, Mottaki added. - End