Probe of 9/11 events beneficial to US

As Iran’s president calls for a special tribunal to probe into the 9/11 attacks, a senior Iranian lawmaker says an investigation into the case would benefit the US.

“The performance of the US and the Zionist lobby will be put under question if Washington seeks to prevent the establishment of a fact-finding committee to investigate the (September 11) event through exerting pressure on the United Nations,” said Alaeddin Boroujerdi, chairman of the Majlis (Parliament) Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy Commission on Sunday.

He added that in case the US blocks the formation of the tribunal, the possibility that the role of the US and Israel in the terrorist attacks gets exposed will gain momentum.

Boroujerdi said a call by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to set up an independent committee will be a major step towards exposing the hidden aspects of the attacks.

He went on to say the US has very sophisticated intelligence and security apparatus and added that it was highly unlikely that a terrorist group would infiltrate such security layers to wage such major attacks.

Boroujerdi’s remarks came after President Ahmadinejad, in his address to the UN General Assembly on Thursday, said the US took advantage of the “suspicious” September 11 “incident” to justify its occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq.

He went on to raise serious questions about the credibility of the US government’s account of the 9/11 attacks, suggesting that “a very powerful and complex terrorist group was able to successfully cross all layers of the American intelligence and security, carried out the attack.”