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Iran accused Israel on Thursday of falsifying claims that it had seized an Iranian shipment of weapons bound for Palestinian militants in Gaza aboard a merchant ship. Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said that Israel’s assertion, made Wednesday, was suspiciously timed, coming during a meeting in Washington of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the powerful pro-Israel lobbying organization that is one of Iran’s most influential critics in American politics. The Israeli military said a Panamanian-flagged ship was seized by Israeli commandos 1,000 miles from the southern Israeli city of Eilat and was carrying dozens of Syrian-made M-302 rockets that Iran had helped to transport to Iraq, where the ship had loaded them. “An Iranian ship carrying arms for Gaza. Captured just in time for annual AIPAC anti-Iran campaign,” Mr. Zarif said on Twitter. “Amazing Coincidence! Or same failed lies.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/07/world/middleeast/iran-disputes-israeli-arms-claim.html?_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/07/world/middleeast/iran-disputes-israeli-arms-claim.html?_r=0