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Date: January 28, 2007 10:29:35 PM PST
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Subject: Bush Gets Poked in the Eye by Iran
Iran acting to expand its military, economic involvement in Iraq
Ha'aretz (Jerusalem), January 29, 2007
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/818989.html
The Iranian ambassador to Baghdad has exposed a plan to expand
significantly Tehran's economic and military ties with Iraq, the
New York Times reported on Sunday.
Iranian ambassador to Iraq Hassan Kazemi Qumi speaking at a press
conference in Baghdad on January 18. (Reuters)
In an interview with the N.Y. Times, Hassan Kazemi Qumi outlined a
plan that could potentially heighten Iran's conflict with the
United States over Iraq. Washington has recently warned Tehran not
to meddle in the affairs of its neighbor, detaining a number of
Iranian operatives in recent weeks and claiming it has proof of
Iranian complicity in attacks on American and Iraqi forces.
The Iranian ambassador said Iran was prepared to offer Iraq forces
training, equipment and advisers for what he called "the security
fight," The N.Y. Times said.
In the economic area, Qumi told the N.Y. Times that Iran was
prepared to take on expanded responsibility for the reconstruction
of Iraq.
"We have experience of reconstruction after war," Qumi said,
referring to the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. "We are ready to
transfer this experience in terms of reconstruction to the Iraqis."
Qumi also acknowledged, for the first time, that two Iranians
seized and later released by U.S. forces last month were security
officials, as the Americans had claimed. But he said that they were
engaged in legitimate discussions with the Iraqi government and
should not have been detained.
The ambassador told the N.Y. Times that the Iranian operatives were
in Iraq because "the two countries agreed to solve the security
problems." The Iranians "went to meet with the Iraqi side," he said.
Qumi said also that Iran would soon open a national bank in Iraq,
in effect creating a new Iranian financial institution right under
the Americans' noses. A senior Iraqi banking official, Hussein al-
Uzri, confirmed that Iran had received a license to open the new
bank, which Uzri told the N.Y. Times would apparently be the first
"wholly owned subsidiary bank" of a foreign country in Iraq.
"This will enhance trade between the two countries," Uzri said.
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