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Iran agents launch raid in Pakistan to free diplomat
Tehran: Iran’s intelligence agents mounted a cross-border mission and freed an Iranian diplomat kidnapped in 2008 by gunmen in northwestern Pakistan, state television reported on Tuesday.
The agents rescued Heshmatollah Attarzadeh of Iran’s Peshawar consulate “in a complicated intelligence operation” and took him back to Iran the report said.
Intelligence minister Heidar Moslehi said that Iran had asked Pakistan to free the diplomat, but after it failed to do the job, Tehran had handled the problem itself.
“We have a high intelligence capability in the region,” he said. “We have a good intelligence dominance over all other secret agencies active in the region,” he added, accusing US and Israeli intelligence agencies of supporting the kidnappers.
A Pakistani security official, however, maintained that Pakistani intelligence did help in the rescue operation.
Attarzadeh and his Pakistani bodyguard were driving in Peshawar on November 13, 2008, when two gunmen blocked their way with a car and opened fire. The attackers fled with the diplomat after killing the guard. A year after the abduction, a Pakistani employee of the same Iranian consulate was gunned down.
The envoy’s release comes after Iranian agents in February captured Tehran’s most wanted Sunni militant Abdolmalek Rigi, who Iran said, lived in Pakistan from where he launched attacks on the Islamic republic. AGENCIES
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/03/30/iranian-agents-free-diplomat-kidnapped-pakistan/
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Tehran: Iran’s intelligence agents mounted a cross-border mission and freed an Iranian diplomat kidnapped in 2008 by gunmen in northwestern Pakistan, state television reported on Tuesday.
The agents rescued Heshmatollah Attarzadeh of Iran’s Peshawar consulate “in a complicated intelligence operation” and took him back to Iran the report said.
Intelligence minister Heidar Moslehi said that Iran had asked Pakistan to free the diplomat, but after it failed to do the job, Tehran had handled the problem itself.
“We have a high intelligence capability in the region,” he said. “We have a good intelligence dominance over all other secret agencies active in the region,” he added, accusing US and Israeli intelligence agencies of supporting the kidnappers.
A Pakistani security official, however, maintained that Pakistani intelligence did help in the rescue operation.
Attarzadeh and his Pakistani bodyguard were driving in Peshawar on November 13, 2008, when two gunmen blocked their way with a car and opened fire. The attackers fled with the diplomat after killing the guard. A year after the abduction, a Pakistani employee of the same Iranian consulate was gunned down.
The envoy’s release comes after Iranian agents in February captured Tehran’s most wanted Sunni militant Abdolmalek Rigi, who Iran said, lived in Pakistan from where he launched attacks on the Islamic republic. AGENCIES
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/03/30/iranian-agents-free-diplomat-kidnapped-pakistan/