Laden death 'failure' for US: Iran

Osama bin Laden's killing amounts to a "big failure" for Washington, Iranian Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said yesterday, as he cast doubt on the US decision to bury the Al-Qaeda chief at sea.
"The United States says it has achieved success with the death of bin Laden, but .... it actually is a big failure," Vahidi said, quoted by Iran's state news agency IRNA.
"The United States forced 10 years of war on three countries (Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan), left a million people dead and spent more than 1,000 billion dollars to kill one person."
Vahidi spoke of "ambiguities" over bin Laden's death.
Shiite Iran has always considered al-Qaeda as a Sunni ultra-radical and anti-Shiite threat to its security.