Iran officials visit detainees in Iraq
Ap, Baghdad
Iranian diplomats made their first visit to five Iranians that US authorities are holding in Iraq on suspicion that they were training militants there, the US military said yesterday. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said he hoped the visit Saturday to the detainees, who have been held since January, would help ease tensions between Iran and the United States. The detention of the five Iranians by US troops on Jan. 11 in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil has been a point of contention between Tehran and Washington at a time when the Iraqi government is trying to get the two to resolve their differences. US authorities have said the five included the operations chief and other members of Iran's elite Quds Force, which is accused of arming and training Iraqi militants.
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