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US blamed for shooting of Iranian embassy staff
Bangkok News.Net
Thursday 15th May, 2008
Gunmen opened fire on a car carrying three Iranian embassy staff in Baghdad overnight, wounding them and their Iraqi driver.
The embassy staff were on their way to visit a local shrine.
Iraqi police confirmed the attack but did not have any further details or say who they thought could be behind it.
Iran's official IRNA news agency has blamed the US military.
A US military spokesman in Baghdad said the allegation was "completely ridiculous" as the US was "not in the business of assassination."
While most Gulf states have no permanent representatives in Baghdad, Iran is one of the few countries with an embassy in Iraq.
Many diplomats have stayed away from the country since the Egyptian ambassador was kidnapped and a suicide car bomber attacked the Jordanian embassy in 2003.
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wacama
05-15-08, 11:23 PM |
Iranian embassy staff fired upon - US blamed
That a bunch of you know what. A typical Iranian statement to blame the USA.And more to come. The Iranian goverment hate the Americans with a fashion.Anything had happen in Iran is USA fault. Nobody else.a Good propaganda.When they run out of toilet papers the USA doing.
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Anonymous
05-16-08, 12:19 AM |
The Iranians are only giving the US a dose of their own medicine.The US is always blaming others for their own wrongdoings. It’s a verbal counterattack which the Iranians has the courage to do.
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Anonymous
05-16-08, 02:59 AM |
Iran is also after the oil
Looks like the Iraqi people seem to understand the war with Iran has not finished and that Iran wants to control the oil and enslave the iraqi people.. just like they have ensalved their own people
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eklabya
05-16-08, 05:21 AM |
Persian empire’s ghost is finally speaking out...to find her place in the Sun.
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Anonymous
05-16-08, 08:27 AM |
Iran is full of crap, so is the USA, who knows who is trying to kill who. Cant believe everything you hear, but sometimes it is true. USA is always going around secretly killing people, thats nothing new!
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