Iran Denies Report on Iraqi Scientist

[Khephra]

TEHRAN, Iran -- Tehran on Monday denied that a top Iraqi scientist who headed Saddam Hussein's long-range missile program has fled to Iran.

The government reaction came a day after The Associated Press reported that Dr. Modher Sadeq-Saba al-Tamimi had fled Iraq to neighboring Iran, quoting U.S. officials close to the hunt for weapons of mass destruction.

"This report is completely baseless," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency.

Also Monday, the president of Iraq's U.S.-appointed Governing Council said he does not believe Iran or Syria are behind violence in his country, but that militants could be slipping across the "out of control" borders, IRNA reported.

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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-iran-iraqi-scientist,0,44256.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

[Patriot_Spear]

1. Swallowed up by Iran?

Sounds like the Iranian version of 'Operation: Paper Clip' to me.