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Iran says won't share al Qaeda information with U.S
Wed 29 October, 03
Reuters
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran says it will not share intelligence with the United States about al Qaeda members held in Iran despite repeated requests from Washington for it to do so.
"We don't have any relations with American security services so there is no reason to do anything on this issue," government spokesman Abdollah Ramazanzadeh told a weekly news conference on Wednesday.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said on Tuesday Washington was prepared to resume limited contacts with the Iranian government but that relations would not improve until Tehran shared intelligence on al Qaeda.
Washington broke off talks with Iranian officials over Afghanistan and Iraq in May after accusing Iran of sheltering al Qaeda members behind bombings in Riyadh on May 12 which killed 35 people, including nine Americans.
Iran denies cooperating with al Qaeda and says it has caught and extradited hundreds of suspected members of Osama bin Laden's network in the last two years.
Iran recently handed over to the United Nations Security Council a list of more than 200 names of al Qaeda members it has recently extradited to their home countries.
But it refuses to publicly announce details of those al Qaeda members it still holds in custody, thought to include some senior members of the organisation.
"Despite public statements that they would cooperate with other countries, the Iranians have refused repeated requests to turn over or share intelligence about all al Qaeda members and leaders they claim to have in custody," Armitage told a Senate committee hearing.
Iran has said it plans to try some of the al Qaeda members it is holding and will extradite the rest to their countries of origin.
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