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| Iraq: Defence minister accuses Iran of interference |
| 2008-04-15 |
| (AKI) - A large amount of Iranian-made heavy weapons have been discovered in the port city of Basra in southern Iraq, according to Iraq's defence minister Abdel Qader Jassim. "Weapons made in Iranian factories were found in some of the arms depots of the rebels forces," said Jassim in an interview with the Iraqi newspaper al-Sabah. "These weapons reached Iraq directly from Iran and it makes us think that the authorities in the Islamic Republic had authorised its transfer to our country," he said. "Someone in Tehran is pulling the strings of the revolt by the Shia extremists with the aim of destabilising Iraq." The declaration of the Iraqi minister comes after statements made two weeks ago by an American military spokesman on Iran's direct involvement in the attacks on Baghdad's fortified Green Zone and other clashes in Najaf and Basra between the Iraqi security forces and the militias of radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. |
| Posted by:Fred |