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January 26, 2005
Bush Tells Iran to Stay Out of Iraq Vote
Topics: Middle East News and PerspectivesBEIRUT, Lebanon - Iran should stay out of Iraq (news - web sites)'s elections, President Bush (news - web sites) said Wednesday on pan-Arab television.
"Iranians should not be trying to unduly influence the elections," Bush said of Sunday's polls in an interview with the Dubai-based satellite channel Al-Arabiya, according to a White House transcript.
U.S. and Iraqi officials have expressed fears that Iran, a Shiite Muslim-majority state on Iraq's eastern border, is trying to expand its influence through the elections, in which Iraqi Shiites are expected to win the largest number of seats in a transitional national assembly.
Iran has rejected accusations it was trying to influence the elections, saying that Iraqis have made it clear they won't take orders from abroad.
Bush said he does not think the elections will produce a pro-Iranian government in Baghdad.
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