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Iran
Focus
 Tehran, Iran,
Feb. 28 – The United States and Britain
are illegally smuggling arms into the Islamic Republic via its western neighbour Iraq
in a bid to destabilise the Islamic Republic, Iran’s police
chief said on Tuesday.
“100 percent of all illegal arms, alcohol, and unethical items enter onto
Iranian soil via Iraq”,
Brigadier General Ismaeil Ahmadi-Moqaddam
told reporters.
“The entry of illegal weapons into the country is a completely organised enterprise by the big powers based in Iraq”, Ahmadi-Moqaddam said.
The general, a former senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards
Corps, is hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s brother-in-law. He said the Iraqi
government had promised the Iranian authorities to curb the arms smuggling,
but their pledge “could not be relied upon”.
“With the backing of the occupation forces in Iraq, plans have been set up
through which illegal arms are brought in to disrupt internal security”, the
State Security Forces commander said.
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