Rice Rejects Link of Iran Arrests and Captures of Guards in Iraq

05/30/2007

By HELENE COOPER
NY Times
Published: May 30, 2007


BERLIN, May 29 — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday rejected linking Iran’s charges against three Iranian-Americans in Tehran to the Bush administration’s capture of members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Iraq.

Ms. Rice’s comments suggested that the rare meeting on Monday between American and Iranian envoys had done little to warm relations.

“It’s really just a perversion of the rule of law,” Ms. Rice told reporters aboard her plane en route to a meeting of foreign ministers from the Group of 8 industrialized nations in Hamburg next week.

Speaking of the three Iranian-Americans charged in Tehran, she said, “These are people who are there trying to make life better in Iran, and, in the case of a couple of them, they’re there to meet their families.”

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