The project of democratization preached by the West "cannot be selective", said Sheikh Sadreddine Kubanji, of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI).

"It is project of reform against dictators and we approve of it because the people here suffered under the yoke of dictatorship.

"If this political reform and search for peace in the region does not allow Iran to possess nuclear energy, Israel should not have been permitted to acquire nuclear arms."

Iran faces being hauled before the United Nations Security Council for resuming sensitive nuclear fuel research work that the Western powers and Israel fear would give the clerical regime the know-how to build a bomb.

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