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"US budget against Iran shows its weakness"

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"US budget against Iran shows its weakness" Sunday, February 19, 2006 - ©2005 IranMania.com LONDON, February 19 (IranMania) - Secretary of the Expediency Council Mohsen Rezaei said the recent measure by the United States to allocate funds against Iran showed its weakness, IRNA reported. Rezaei made the remark while talking to IRNA about Wednesday's remarks by the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the allocation of a 75-mln-dollar budget to promote US plans on Iran. "Such a stance by the US officials indicate their weakness and inability to do something against Iran. "The US officials had not made such remarks against (former Iraqi president) Saddam Hussein and the Taliban regime because they were confident they could overthrow them. "But they use such threats when faced with the Islamic Republic of Iran," Rezaei said. He added, "Threats including attack on Iran or allocation of a budget to confront the country show US weakness to counter Iran's strength by launching a psychological and propaganda warfare. "Such stance by the US indicates that it is faced with several shortcomings on Iran and it raises such issues to cover up its weakness."