Behind Closed Doors, Iran Blames Bin Laden; Nation Sees Chance to Chart Moderate Course

The Washington Post | October 6, 2001| | Copyright

In newspapers, influential Friday prayer sermons and official pronouncements, Iranians are treated to a variety of theories about who committed the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States: radical American-bred militia groups, Israeli intelligence agents, disaffected former U.S. military pilots -- anybody, it seems, but Osama bin Laden.

Privately, the government has a different view. This week, high- ranking officials in the administration of President Mohammad Khatami summoned a group of Western diplomats and told them Iran had concluded that bin Laden was behind the attacks.

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