Iraq Turns Into ‘Frankenstein Monster,’ Iranians Say

Likening Iraq to Frankenstein’s monster turning on its creators, Iran’s media Monday stepped up its attack on Baghdad for invading Kuwait.

But differences emerged over proposals to seek defense ties with conservative pro-Western Persian Gulf states fearful of Iraqi ambitions.

Kuwait and other conservative Arab governments had themselves to blame for backing Iraq in its 1980-88 war with Iran, the official news agency IRNA said.

“Their efforts to set up a ‘fancy hero’ for the Arab world having misfired, these regimes instead created a ‘Frankenstein monster’ who is now tormenting his own masters more than anyone else,” it said in a commentary.

Mohammed Javad Larijani, adviser to the foreign minister, wrote in the newspaper Ettelaat that the invasion is a threat to Iran’s security as well as to the interests of Persian Gulf states.