Khamenei: Half an hour saved Saddam from the Revolutionary Guards

Iranian media quoted Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei as saying that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard nearly captured the Baathist leader Saddam Hussein in an operation during the Iran-Iraq war.

Khamenei was quoted as saying that Saddam Hussein "had given an interview to the media at the beginning of the war near the city of Ilam (located in western Iran), then Saddam said that his next interview would be in Tehran! But you saw what happened to him during and after the war."

The Supreme Leader of the Iranian Revolution said about Saddam that he was about to be captured by the Revolutionary Guards, adding, "They arrived at his location, and if they had arrived half an hour faster, he would have been arrested, but he was lucky and managed to escape."

Iraq's former dictator president Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. forces in the Red Down operation in 2003. On the morning of the start of Eid al-Adha on December 30, 2006, Saddam Hussein was hanged to death for committing crimes against humanity.



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