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미국에는 `가 이란을 풀어주는 계획' 있다
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미국에는 이라크에서 체포되고 반정부적인 전투기 거기 지원의 고소된 5명의 이란을 석방하는 아무 계획도 다는 것을 로버트 문, 미국 국방부 장관은, 밝혔다.
그는 또한 미국이 이란을 목요일에 15명의 영국 군인을 먼저 석방하는 지도한 거래의 일부분이었었다 숙고를 거절했다.
"나는 1월에 있는 북부 이라크에 있는 미군에 의해 체포된 5명의 이란에 관해서 물어볼 때 아무 성향도 지금 가게 했다는 것을 그들이," 문을 단ㄴ다는 것을 워싱톤에 있는 말한 취재원을 다는 것을 생각한다.
Washington has denied that it had been involved in any deal which offered concessions to Iran in return for the release of the 15 British servicemen, who were seized by Iranian troops near the southern Iraqi city of Basra.
George Bush, the US president, said on Tuesday that he agreed with Tony Blair, the British prime minister, “that there should be no quid pro quos when it comes to the hostages”.
Access considered
Gates, however, said that US and Iraqi officials were considering arranging for Iranian representatives to visit the captured men, whom Iran says are legitimate diplomats.
“Iraqi government officials and US officials are discussing if there’s some way, perhaps, that there could be some kind of Iranian access to them,” he said.
“But as far as I know, there’s no requirement for that.
“I don’t think that consular access is being considered. I think the issue is whether there’s some other means by which some other access might be given.”
Gates’s comments came after Major-General William Caldwell, a US military spokesman, told reporters in Baghdad that a consular request to visit the five Iranians was “being assessed”.
The five Iranians were arrested by US forces in the northern city of Irbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, on January 11.
US officials accused the men of being members of the elite Al-Quds brigade of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and of helping organise attacks on US and Iraqi forces.
Washington and Tehran broke off diplomatic ties almost 27 years ago and US interests in Iran are conducted via Switzerland.
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