‘US uses forward escape tactic on 9/11’

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast says the United States has adopted forward escape policies instead of clarifying ‘ambiguities’ surrounding the 9/11 attacks.

“Unfortunately, the United States applies a forward escape tactic instead of elaborating on the ambiguities about the September 11 incidents,” IRIB quoted Mehmanparast as saying in a Tuesday press conference at Iran’s Foreign Ministry.

The official reiterated to reporters that the Islamic Republic is strongly opposed to terrorism as the Iranian nation has been “the biggest victim” of the phenomenon.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman questioned Washington’s polices in terms of supporting some terrorist groups and attacking others and said, “The biggest terrorist groups against our nation are supported by Western states, and operate freely in the US and other Western countries.”

On Sunday, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad again insisted that the US used the September 11, 2001 attacks as a pretext for the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan which led to huge human losses.

On September 11, 2001, a series of coordinated attacks were carried out in the United States, reportedly leaving nearly 3,000 people dead.

The US government claimed that 19 terrorist, allegedly affiliated with the shadowy, Afghanistan-based al-Qaeda group, hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners and crashed two of them into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the buildings.

The George W. Bush Administration also claimed at the time that alleged hijackers crashed a third airliner into the headquarters of US military, the Pentagon, located in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington D.C.

The official US story regarding the September 11 events, however, has been widely challenged by various quarters in the US and worldwide. The near simultaneous fall of the twin towers, as well as a third building that was never struck by a plane in New York and the lack any airplane remains at the Pentagon crash site are among some major unanswered questions that challenge the authenticity of the official account of in 9/11 incidents.

The US, under the administration of former President George W. Bush, invaded Afghanistan in 2001 after claiming that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by members of al-Qaeda, which was allegedly harbored by the then Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

The US also attacked Iraq in 2003, insisting that the oil-rich country was in possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

However, it was later revealed that the once US-backed regime of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein did not possess any WMDs at the time and that American and British officials knew all along about the non-existence of such weapons but lied to set the stage for the invasion of Iraq.