Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 17
By Umid Niayesh - Trend:
A top advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei clamed that Australian intelligence forces are behind the hostage terror attach in Sydney, done by a person of Iranian origin on Dec.15.
Haron Monis (his real name in Iran was Mohammad Hassan Manteghi Boroujerdi), an Iranian refugee, who received political asylum in 1996 in Australia, took a number of people hostage inside a Sydney chocolate cafe Monday, which ended the death of three people including himself.
The head of Iran's police, Gen Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam said Dec.16 that Iran requested 14 years ago the extradition of Monis but Australia refused to hand him over.
Now, Ali Akbar Velayati, an advisor to Ayatollah Khamenei who serves also as the director of the Strategic Research Center of Iran's Expediency Council called the hostage case an " ignominious plot" of Australian security forces who follow the US.
Velayati added that Australia is not "acceptable country in the world, because it follows the United States' policies," Fars News Agency reported Dec.17.
Edited by CN