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Iran/Iraq border to be sealed, officials say.

 
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PostPosted: Sun May 28, 2006 2:36 pm    Post subject: Iran/Iraq border to be sealed, officials say. Reply with quote

Via Marza Por Gohar:
http://www.marzeporgohar.org/index.php?action=news&l=1&n_id=30764
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Subject: Iran-Iraq to seal border against insurgents
Source: Deccan Herald
Date 28-05-2006

Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki of Iran, on the second day of his visit to Iraq, said on Saturday that the two countries had agreed to form a joint commission to oversee border issues and that its primary task would be to "block saboteurs" crossing the 700-mile border.

"We plan to form a joint commission between Iran and Iraq to control our borders and block the way to saboteurs whose aim is to destabilize the security of the two countries," he said in Najaf after talks with Iraq's most powerful Shiite religious leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.

Mr. Mottaki, whose visit was only the second by an official Iranian government delegation since the downfall of Saddam Hussein, said improved border controls would be part of a wide effort to build close ties between the countries, including $1 billion in Iranian economic assistance to Shiite and Kurdish areas of Iraq.

American military commanders and diplomats have been focusing on what they say is strong evidence that a covert flow of weapons and money from Iran to Shiite militia groups in Iraq has fueled sectarian violence here. The Americans have urged the new Iraqi government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki to tighten security on the weakly patrolled Iran-Iraq border.

The issue is fraught with political complexity in Iraq, where the Maliki government includes Shiite leaders with links to at least two militias. The militias have been accused of participating in a brutal cycle of sectarian violence that has killed hundreds of people in recent months, in revenge for the relentless attacks on Shiites by Sunni insurgent groups.

In a statement released Saturday night, the American military said two marines were missing after their AH-1 Super Cobra attack helicopter crashed during a maintenance flight in Anbar Province, a desert region where Sunni Arab insurgents have mounted some of their fiercest challenges to American troops. The statement said that the crash "does not appear to be the result of enemy action" and that search and rescue efforts were under way.

Comment: The fact that the IRI has claimed it will help stop the flow of covert agents "between the two countries" suggests to me that some kind of a deal has been made, or at least is being offered, to stop anti-regime agents (perhaps US special forces) from entering Iran across the Iraqi border in exchange for a reduction in regime-backed terrorist activity in Iraq. Possibly the Iranian regime is trying to out-maneuver the US by making a deal with the Iraqi government. At the very least, it seems like a tacit acknowledgement that the IRI is feeling threatened by someone or something coming across the border from Iraq.
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