BAGHDAD, Feb 18 (KUNA) — MNF forces in Iraq claimed large quantities of Iranian-made weapons were smuggled into Iraq.
A coalition forces statement said that its forces received a weapon cache of more than 2000 rounds at Forward Operating Base Delta.
The cache consisted of 2078 various types of munitions, hand grenades, and fire cords. The munitions [...]

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More than 300,000 Iraqis including 600 Shi’ite tribal leaders have signed a petition accusing Iran of sowing “disorder” in southern Iraq, a group of sheikhs involved in the campaign said.
The sheikhs showed Reuters two thick bundles of notes which contained original signatures. The sheikhs said more than 300,000 people had signed the pages.
Such a public [...]

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Tuesday’s Pravo reported that last Thursday, the Czech air force had been called upon to shadow an Iranian plane, flying across Czech airspace and carrying on board, according to American military information, radioactive material.  According to a spokesperson for the Czech Defence Ministry, fighter-jets were dispatched to ’shadow, and not accompany’ the Iranian plane.  Officials [...]

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With President Bush and Vice President Cheney warning that Iran must not be permitted to obtain nuclear weapons, our media have shifted their focus from Iraq. The shift is apparent in the decision by many reporters to make a controversy out of the fact that Senator Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner, voted for a resolution [...]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration announced Thursday that it is imposing sweeping new sanctions against Iran’s defense ministry, its Revolutionary Guard Corps and a number of banks.
Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, joined at a State Department news conference by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, said the steps the Bush administratioin is taking are designed to [...]

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Michael Smith - BRITISH special forces have crossed into Iran several times in recent months as part of a secret border war against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Al-Quds special forces, defence sources have disclosed.
There have been at least half a dozen intense firefights between the SAS and arms smugglers, a mixture of Iranians and Shi’ite militiamen.
The [...]

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BAGHDAD, Oct.  8 (Xinhua) — Iran reopened the crossing points on borders with northern Iraq on Monday after two weeks of closure in protest for U.S.  detention of an Iranian official, a local official said.
“This morning the Iranian side reopened the Bashmakh crossing point in Panjwin area in Sulaimaniyah province,” Atta Ahmed Kurda, head of [...]

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IRBIL, Sept 24 (KUNA) — Iran has shut five border checkpoints with Iraq against the backdrop of the detention of an Iranian national by the American forces in Iraq last Thursday.
The spokesman of Kurdistan’s goverment, Jamal Abdullah, said in a statement on Monday that the Iranian authorities closed the border exits earlier today. “We will [...]

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Baghdad - US troops arrested an Iranian businessman on Thursday in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaymanyah, media reports said.
The US troops arrested the businessman, said to be a member of an Iranian commercial delegation visiting the Kurdish Autonomous Region, the Dubai-based Iraqi al-Sharqiya TV reported.
No further information has been given.
The US accuses Iran of [...]

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Baghdad - The Iraqi national security advisor said on Wednesday there was ‘a predetermined conspiracy to get control over the two Shiite shrines’ in Karbala ‘to create a major national crisis.’
Mowaffak al-Rubaie accused people linked to the executed former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein of being involved in the recent clashes between militants, believed to belong [...]

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