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US Briefing on Iran Discredits the Official Line

Date: February 14, 2007
Author: Gareth Porter
QUOTE: Contradicting recent claims by both Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defence Robert Gates that U.S. intelligence had proof of Iranian government responsibility for the supply of such weapons, the unnamed officials who briefed the media Sunday admitted that the claim [that the Iranian government has been providing weapons to Iraqi Shiites] is merely "an inference" rather than based on a trail of evidence.

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