Iraq: Pro-Iranian Agents Planning Baghdad Terror Attack Under Arrest
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Iraqi authorities have arrested several pro-Iranian agents who were planning terrorist attacks in a crowded Baghdad neighborhood, the official Iraqi News Agency reported.
In a statement reported by INA, Iraqi security authorities said "criminal elements were arrested while trying to conduct a sabotage and terrorist act against the civilians in one of Baghdad's most crowded areas."
The report did not specify which area nor how many people were arrested.
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Iran had recruited the men to achieve its "aggressive goals planned by the circles of evil and terrorism in the Iranian regime to serve the Zionist-U.S. schemes," the statement said.
Iran and Iraq, which share a 800-mile border, host rebels fighting each other's government. A 1980-88 war between the two Muslim nations killed or wounded more than 1 million people before a U.N.-brokered cease-fire ended the bloodshed.