Tehran Denies Detaining U.S. Troops
September 20 2010
The Iranian semi-official Javan News agency has retracted a report about the Revolutionary Guards supposedly detaining seven American troops, Al Jazeera (Qatar) reports.
The story, published Sunday by Iranian state media, stated that the American soldiers had been detained with two Iranians as they tried to illegally enter Iran near the border with Pakistan.
The Pentagon denied the report, insisting there were no soldiers reported missing, Agence France-Presse reported.
The...
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