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Iraqi President Talabani receives Iranian
ambassador
25.3.2007
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March 25, 2007
Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan region (Iraq), -- The
Iranian ambassador visited Iraqi President Jalal
Talabani at his home in the Kurdish city of
Sulaimaniyah, his office reported on Saturday.
Talabani spokesman Kamran Qaradaghi said the visit
was not related to Iran's seizure on Friday of 15
British sailors as they were searching for smugglers
off the Iraqi coast.
The spokesman said Iranian envoy Hassan Kazemi Qomi
paid the "courtesy call" on Friday to convey his
government's good wishes for the president's
recovery and return to Iraq after 17 days treatment
in a Jordanian hospital for exhaustion and
dehydration.
The 73-year-old president was flown to Jordan after
he collapsed Feb. 25 in Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan
region of Iraq, and was admitted to King Hussein
Medical Center in Amman. Doctors said he suffered
from
exhaustion and dehydration caused by lung and sinus
infections. |
Iraqi
President : Jalal Talabani, a Kurd |
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Britain's eight Royal Navy sailors and seven Royal
Marines had just searched a merchant ship when they
and their two inflatable boats were intercepted by
Iranian vessels about 10:30 a.m. Friday near the
disputed Shatt al-Arab waterway, U.S. and British
officials said. The Iranian vessels surrounded them
and escorted them away at gunpoint.
Iran on Saturday insisted that the 15 Britons had
illegally entered Iranian waters and denounced what
Tehran called "blatant aggression." Iran said
Britain was trying to cover up an incursion.
The tough comment came after Britain demanded the
return of the sailors and denied they had strayed
into Iranian waters.
AP
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