You’ll forgive me if I take this with a whole shaker of salt ...
Iran has extradited a number of Al-Qaeda suspects to Saudi Arabia in recent months and is also handing over vital intelligence on the network’s activities, a top Iranian official was quoted as saying. "We have tackled the terrorism with the framework of international treaties and regulations, and I think we have a shining record in that field," Hassan Rowhani, the head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said in Paris Wednesday.
"We have handed a number of a number of Al-Qaeda members to Saudi Arabia in the past several months," Rowhani, who is on a three-day visit to the French capital, was quoted as saying by official Iranian media. "In addition to that, we have given exact and precise information to Saudi Arabia, and the successes that the Saudis have had in the past several months may be a result of the information we have furnished," he added. The cleric, who heads Iran’s top body on national security issues, gave no further details on how many suspected Al-Qaeda members have been extradited in recent months. He also did not identify them.
| "They were... ummm... important guys. With turbans." |
But he did emphasise that the Islamic republic would continue assisting Saudi authorities. "Saudi Arabia is an important and a friendly country, and an explosion in Saudi Arabia is like an explosion in Iran. We will make all efforts in assisting Saudi Arabia," he asserted. |