Nbadan
01-04-2006, 02:09 PM
London, IRNA - The UK government is reported to have dropped its allegations of Iranian 'involvement' in supplying Iraqi insurgency groups with bombs to attack British soldiers.
Military and diplomatic officials have stopped pointing the finger at Tehran after carrying out a thorough assessment of the latest intelligence, wrote the daily Times.
Officials were now 'merely saying that the new technology matched bomb-making expertise traditionally found in Syria and Lebanon', according to the daily's defense editor Michale Evans.
The withdrawal of the allegations comes after Prime Minister Tony Blair first confirmed that the UK was accusing Iran of involvement at a press conference with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani during his visit to London in October.
Blair said that there was no specific evidence and that 'cannot be sure of this at the present time' but that the 'particular nature of those devices leads us either to Iranian elements or to Hizbollah (in Lebanon)'.
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Link (http://www.payvand.com/news/06/jan/1019.html)
Not that this matters now because the propaganda is already out there and this story will be buried behind the Obit's in everyone's local fish-wrap if it gets any coverage at all.
Military and diplomatic officials have stopped pointing the finger at Tehran after carrying out a thorough assessment of the latest intelligence, wrote the daily Times.
Officials were now 'merely saying that the new technology matched bomb-making expertise traditionally found in Syria and Lebanon', according to the daily's defense editor Michale Evans.
The withdrawal of the allegations comes after Prime Minister Tony Blair first confirmed that the UK was accusing Iran of involvement at a press conference with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani during his visit to London in October.
Blair said that there was no specific evidence and that 'cannot be sure of this at the present time' but that the 'particular nature of those devices leads us either to Iranian elements or to Hizbollah (in Lebanon)'.
(more)
Link (http://www.payvand.com/news/06/jan/1019.html)
Not that this matters now because the propaganda is already out there and this story will be buried behind the Obit's in everyone's local fish-wrap if it gets any coverage at all.