Ali Hatem Al-Salman, head of the Al-Dulaim tribes in Iraq, has condemned Iran's recently filed lawsuit for $600 billion in damages from Iraq for the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, calling the demand quarrelsome and a response to the signing of the U.S.-Iraq security pact.

He added that it was Iran that should compensate Iraq – for its interference in Iraq's domestic affairs over the past five years, for stealing Iraqi oil in recent years, and for refusing to return Iraqi airplanes that it took over.

Source: Al-Quds Al-Arabi, London, December 5, 2008