1 March 2011 - 20:30

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday warned the United States against military intervention in Libya, saying such action would create a graveyard for its soldiers.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - President Ahmadinejad made the remarks in his address to a crowd of people in the western Iranian province of Lorestan.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday warned the United States against military intervention in Libya, saying such action would create a graveyard for its soldiers.

Ahmadinejad said the current situation was completely different to what it was during the tenure of former US president George W. Bush.

"[Bush] used a deception named September 11 to prepare the ground to invade Iraq and Afghanistan," Ahmadinejad said at a public speech in the western province of Lorestan.

"Be warned that if you intervene militarily one more time, in any of the countries in North Africa or the Middle East, the regional nations will rise and dig the graves of your soldiers," he said, referring to reports that the West was weighing up military option to oust Libyan strongman Moammar Qaddafi.

Ahmadinejad, in his speech broadcast live on state television, reiterated all the regional "dictators" were backed by Washington.

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