Iran top leader opposes US action in Iraq

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says he is against US intervention in Iraq, where Sunni fighters seized a number of towns. Iran's top leader has said he is against US intervention in neighbouring Iraq, where Sunni fighters opposed to Tehran have seized a number of towns and cities. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday that Iraq's government and its people, with help of top clerics, would be able to end the "sedition" there, saying "extremists" are hostile to both Shia and Sunnis who seek an independent Iraq. "We strongly oppose the intervention of the U.S. and others in the domestic affairs of Iraq," Khamenei was quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying, in his first reaction to the crisis. "The main dispute in Iraq is between those who want Iraq to join the US camp and those who seek an independent Iraq," said Khamenei, who has the final say over government policies. "The US aims to bring its own blind followers to power since the US is not happy about the current government in Iraq." Earlier on Sunday Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said some countries "feed terrorists by their petrodollars", in a veiled reference to the Arab Gulf states, and warned that such support would come back to haunt them. "Rest assured, tomorrow will be your turn. The barbarous terrorists will go after supporters of terrorism in the future," Rouhani said. -- -- http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/06/iran-top-leader-opposes-us-action-iraq-2014622135115717482.html