Attempts by Iranian hardliners to encourage attacks on coalition targets are being undertaken against the wishes of the Iranian government
and then say this:
But at the same time as Iranian officials were negotiating with Sadr, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's hardline spiritual leader, was circulating a cassette tape in Arabic to a number of Iraqi mosques in which he called on the Iraqis to "unite and expel the occupiers to ensure the establishment of a new power based on Islam".
and fail to see the utter lunacy they spouted in the first statement. Then again I am probably expecting too much from reporters for them to be able to recognize that statements they write within 20 words of each other are diametrically opposed to such an extent that either one statement is true, or the other, but not both.