TEHRAN Reuter: Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini said today that Iran must reject any arbitration in the gulf war, fight until victory and finish off Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
We should submit neither to impose peace, nor to imposed arbitration, did he tell top government officials and military commanders at a mosque near his north Tehran home.
We should continue the war until victory and it is near. If our nation wants to bring this victory closer, it must prepare in the true sense of the word to finish off this man (Hussein), Khomeini said in a broadcast speech.
There are people who urge peace and a commendation. Not that they are of any consequence, but they are there, Khomeini said,
Some say Lets find an arbiter to sort things out in these seven years we have come to know who. These arbiters are and what sort of people the would-be peace-makers can be, he added.
Tehran has set three conditions for ending the six-year-old war: with drawls of troops to international borders, payment of reparations by Iraq, and punishment of Hussein as the aggressor.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 29, 1986
