BAGHDAD, July 13 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - President Saddam Hussein's powerful elder son Uday has warned an Iranian dissident that the U.S. intents on carving up the region, and won't stop at Iraq, according to remarks published Saturday, July 13.

"After Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Iran's turn will come," Uday told the Iraq-based dissident, Tareq Abdul Karim Naama, at a meeting earlier this week.

The Agence France-Presse (AFP) said that Uday, writing under a pseudonym, had charged in the July 7 edition of the Babel daily he runs that the United States had "drawn up a plan aimed at striking Iraq and breaking up the countries of the region," including Saudi Arabia.

"They [Iranians] think that only Iraq is threatened. They have not understood that Iraq is the main target because it is the pivot" of the region, said Uday, whose remarks were released by the information ministry.

The partition of Iran would be "very easy" after that of Iraq and Saudi Arabia, he said, but vowing that any U.S. plan to break up his country would "fail."

The Iraqi leader's son also warned Iranian leaders against joining any hostile action against Iraq. "Not an inch of Iraqi soil will ever become part of their territory," he said without elaborating.

The press statement said Uday made his remarks during a meeting on Wednesday, July 10, with Naama, who heads the student branch of the Al-Ahwaz Liberation Front, an Iraq-based Iranian opposition group, AFP said.

Uday received Iran's charge d'affaires in Baghdad the same day, the Iraqi weekly Al-Ittihad reported Saturday without giving details.

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi said earlier this month Tehran was "firmly opposed" to any foreign-led attack on Iraq aimed at changing its leaders.