- Iran's state-run news agency IRNA quotes what it calls
"an informed source" as denying a report in a Saudi-owned newspaper
that says Iranian troops are massing on the border with Iraq.
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- The report in the pan-Arab Asharq al-Awsat, or "Middle
East" newspaper, quotes what it calls "reliable sources"
who say four Iranian battalions have moved to the southern border with
Iraq. The sources say the troops are preparing to move into Iraq to fill
a security vacuum if U.S. forces pull out after the transfer of sovereignty
on June 30.
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- But IRNA quotes its source as saying the report is "fabricated
and baseless" and is meant to help the United States continue its
occupation of Iraq.
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- Iranian officials have previously said the Tehran government
supports full sovereignty for Iraq.
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