TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran on Tuesday denied involvement in killing US soldiers in Iraq, rejecting allegations that it supplies deadly explosives to insurgents attacking Americans in the conflict-torn country.
"The Islamic republic has no role in killing American soldiers in Iraq," Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency.
"The American government lies to its citizens in this regard," he added.
The United States accuses Iran of seeking to sabotage security Iraq by supplying weapons, including rockets, armour-piercing explosives and mines that have killed American soldiers.
Earlier this month, Washington adopted sanctions against Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards corps and its elite Quds force which US commanders accuse of arming and training Shiite militias that have attacked US troops in Iraq.
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