The extent of Iran’s role in arming and training those militias was uncertain.
Tehran denied a role, while British officials tended to hedge their accusations with references to ‘circumstantial evidence’…
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But now a senior British official has revealed that not only did the Iranians privately admit their involvement, they even made an astonishing offer to switch off the attacks in Iraq if in return the West would stop blocking Iran’s controversial nuclear programme.
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