In the Middle East
IRAN’S parliamentary Speaker Mehdi Karrubi unveiled a plan to end the war in the gulf by calling for an immediate cease-fire and the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from Kuwait and U.S.-led allied troops from the region. Karrubi, a leading radical, said the five-point plan is his own personal peace initiative. He told a news conference that soldiers from Islamic countries should replace Iraqi troops in Kuwait and the multinational force in Saudi Arabia. The proposal came as JORDAN’S Foreign Minister Taher Masri arrived in Iran for a two-day visit to discuss the war, Iran’s Islamic Republic News Agency said.
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