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Iraq says Iran confirms detaining
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iran has confirmed
it has three Americans in custody after
they crossed into Iranian territory from
northern Iraq's Kurdish region last month,
the Iraqi Foreign Minister said on Sunday.
Hoshiyar Zebari met Iran's ambassador to
Iraq, Hassan Kazemi-Qomi, and asked for
information about the U.S. citizens, Whom
Kurdish security officials say are tourists
FulISize Who strayed unwittingly into Iranian
territory.
“Yes, that's correct,” Zebari said when
asked whether he had met Iranian
officials and if they had confirmed the
U.S. citizens were in Iranian custody.
“We met the Iranian ambassador here and we raised the issue. These
people were in Iraq and crossed the border, so we wanted information
and they did not deny it,” he said, adding that Qomi had confirmed they
were being questioned.
Last week an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said he could not
confirm whether the Americans had been detained by Iran.
The tourists had been hiking at the Ahmed Awa tourist resort, renowned
for its waterfalls, when they stumbled into Iran. There is no clear border
marker between Iran and Iraq in that area.
Washington has asked the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, representing U.S.
interests there, for assistance.
Iraq has strong ties to Iran and its arch-foe the United States, forcing
Baghdad to handle the issue of the detentions delicately.
Iran's confirmation of the Americans' detention comes at a time of tense
relations between the West and Tehran.
An Iranian court on Saturday charged a French woman, two Iranians
working for the British and French embassies in Tehran and dozens of
others with spying and aiding a Western plot to overthrow the country's
clerical rule.
Iran accuses the West, particularly the United States and Britain, of
fomenting trouble after a disputed presidential election in June. They
deny the charge.
(Reporting by Mohammed Abbas, Writing by Yara Bayoumy, Editing by
Michael Roddy)
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