Talks continue to form a new government critics accuse Interim Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jafari of weak leadership.
Mr Jafari's remarks came in response to a string of what were seen in Tehran as provocative developments.
Still, with Murky Waters now public knowledge, Iranians can hope that particular plan is too risky for Jafari to enact.
CNN's Joe Johns, Alan Duke and Samira Jafari contributed to this report.
Mr. THOMAS DELARE (U.S. Counselor for Economic Affairs, U.S. Embassy, Baghdad): Well, it's a shame the last government, the Jafari government, did not do this.
Sitting in court to hear the unanimous verdict was widow Mobina Jafari, 32, who has gone back to Iran to live since her husband's death.
Hamid Jafari, project manager of the WHO-National Polio Surveillance Project (NPSP), has said this is the closest the world has come to global eradication of polio.
Widow Mobina Jafari, 32, who has gone back to Iran to live since her husband's death, was in court when the unanimous guilty verdict was returned last month.
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Shoichet, Helena DeMoura and Samira Jafari contributed to this report.
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One of several problems that delayed the formation of the new government was the rear guard action waged by the Shiite Fadila Party to hang onto the Oil Ministry, which it controlled under former Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jafari.
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