Iraqi Defense Minister Calls Iran &quot;Number One Enemy&quot;
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Iraq&#39;s interim defense minister has lashed out at neighbors Iran and Syria, accusing them of aiding wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Saddam Hussein loyalists in Iraq.
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Senior Iraqi ministers will go to Iran   on Tuesday, officials said, possibly paving the way for a first   official visit as prime minister by Nuri al-Maliki to Iraq's   powerful Shi'ite neighbor.
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Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, Iraq's most powerful Shiite politician, defended Iran on Tuesday against American allegations that it trained and equipped Shiite militias, and said the U.S. has not provided any proof.
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Washington's top official in Iraq said he told an Iranian delegation that Tehran should stop supporting militias in Iraq but described rare talks between the two foes on Monday as positive.
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Iran, under fire on suspicion of secretly seeking nuclear arms, accused the United States on Friday of "lawless militarism" in Iraq and called Israel the biggest threat to peace in the Middle East.
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Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih said Sunday he brought a message of friendship to Iran which has been angered by charges it is stirring up tension in Iraq, the official IRNA news agency said.
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Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih  said Sunday he brought a message of friendship to Iran which  has been angered by charges it is stirring up tension in Iraq,  the official IRNA news agency said.
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Iraq's interim defense minister accused  neighbors Iran and Syria on Wednesday of aiding al Qaeda  Islamist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and former agents of Saddam  Hussein to promote a "terrorist" insurgency in Iraq.
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Iran on Monday denied U.S. accusations that it was stoking violence in Iraq by supplying militants with Iranian-made weapons and that those at the "highest levels" of Tehran's government were involved.
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Iran's supreme leader said his country backed the Iraqi government and accused the United States of seeking to undermine Tehran's ties with Baghdad, the Iranian student news agency ISNA reported.
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Iran's supreme leader accused the United States of damaging relations between Iran and Iraq and charged that American and Israeli agents were behind the Iraqi insurgency, state-run Iranian television said Tuesday.
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30 August 2004 -- Iran&#39;s security chief, Hasan Rowhani, has assured visiting Iraqi officials that his country is committed to cooperating on establishing security in Iraq.
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Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, accused Iran today of seeking to "create a Hezbollah-like force" in Iraq to exert Tehran's influence there, but denied that he was preparing the ground for a U.S. attack on Iran.
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On Wednesday, Iraqi interim Defense Minister Hazim al-Shaalan accused Iran and Syria afresh of supporting the insurgency against both the interim government in Baghdad and US-led occupation forces.
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A senior US official warns Iran against helping Iraqi insurgents with more powerful weapons technology.
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MUNICH -- Serial numbers and other markings on bombs suggest that Iranians are linked to deadly explosives used by Iraqi militants, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said yesterday in some of the administration's first public assertions on evidence the military has collected.
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Iran's Foreign Ministry denied Sunday that radical Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was in Iran, calling statements by U.S. and Iraqi officials saying he had traveled to Iran "psychological warfare."