Al-Bayan a UAE daily Sep. 5 — Reacting to Ahmadinejad’s comments, who said Iranian regime is ready to fill the vacuum of security in case of U.S. forces withdrawal, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said: “filling the vacuum of power has to do only with the Iraqi people.”
He also said: “we have told the Iranian officials that Iraqi people are capable of protecting themselves and they do not need anybody else to fill the security vacuum.