Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki...
The statement came as an apparent response to U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton"s condemnation on Monday of Iranian internal policies.
"They [the U.S. authorities] have been captured by their own military doctrine, and have actually ignored the real situation in the region," the Iranian foreign minister was quoted by the news agency as saying.
Speaking in Qatar"s capital, Doha, Clinton said Iran "is moving toward a military dictatorship" with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps assuming ever greater political, military and economic power. She said Iran"s nuclear program required new sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
Mottaki said "the U.S. has a wrong approach toward problems in the Middle East," which is a continuation of the country"s "earlier declared wrong policies."
Mottaki said Washington acted as a "puppeteer" toward Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine and Afghanistan rather than resolving the actual issues.