Iran brands British bomb claims 'fantasy'

[sabra]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1813621,00.html

Iran brands British bomb claims 'fantasy'

Relations between Britain and Iran deteriorated further today as Tehran fiercely denied claims that it had supplied sophisticated weapons used to kill British troops in southern Iraq.

Hamid Reza-Asefi of the Iranian Foreign Ministry appeared on national television to denounce as "fantasy" the allegations, made by an anonymous senior British official, that Iran had equipped the rebel militia in southern Iraq with sophisticated and powerful explosives.

"Britain's conspiracies have been revealed and its scandal in Iraq has made London make up this lie. The British are the cause of instability and crisis in Iraq. By drafting such scenarios they are trying to find a partner in their crimes," he said.

He added: "From the very beginning, we have stated our position very clearly - a stable Iraq is in our interests and that is what the Iraqi authorities have said themselves on many occasions."

[LynnTheDem]

1. I agree with Iran.

And by the way, Britain, YOU are WAR CRIMINALS, not Iran.

Just thought I'd mention that FACT.

[malaise]

2. The entire invasion was based

on fantasy. Bliar has no credibility.

[bemildred]

3. Propaganda, not fantasy. nt