Iran: Hardliners urge Iraq to reject security pact
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Iran's hard-line newspapers are urging the Iraqi parliament to reject a security pact with the United States that would keep American troops in Iraq for three more years.
The daily Jomhuri-e-Eslami warned in a front-page editorial Tuesday that a popular uprising would erupt in Iraq if the Iraqi parliament approves the deal.
Another newspaper, Kayhan, described the pact as a "sellout of Iraq." That papers is run by a representative of Iran's top leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Iran has long called for American troops to leave Iraq. But in recent weeks, the Iranian government had publicly toned down its opposition to the deal.
Iraq's parliament is scheduled to vote on the agreement on Wednesday.
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