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Iranian diplomat has been kidnapped by Iraqi intelligence-security organization: sources

Tehran Times | August 17 2004

TEHRAN (MNA) – Informed sources within the Iraqi Interior Ministry have announced that the so-called Islamic Army group in Iraq which claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of Iranian diplomat in Karbala does not exist literally.

The sources added that the name has been fabricated by Iraq’s current intelligence and security organization.

The sources quoted a senior officer in Iraqi Interior Ministry as saying that the intelligence and security organization is currently led by a high-ranking officer who was previously a senior commander in Iraqi presidential guard.

Fleeing the country, the senior officer returned home with the occupation forces.

The Islamic Army in Iraq claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of Iranian consul Fereydun Jahani in Kerbala on August 8, four days after he went missing.

The group claimed the diplomat had fueled ethnic disputes and performed activities beyond his diplomatic duties.

The armed group threatened to punish the kidnapped diplomat unless Iran would set free within 48 hours 500 prisoners still it claimed to be held since the 1980-88 Iraqi imposed war against Iran.

Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi in response to the event announced Iraq’s interim government is responsible for the life of the kidnapped diplomat. Delegation heads to Iraq to press for release of arrested journalist, diplomat

Meanwhile an Iranian Interior Ministry source said that a group of officials from three Iranian ministries left Tehran for Baghdad Tuesday morning to follow up the case of the Iranian journalist and diplomat recently arrested in Iraq.

The informed source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the group included the director-general of the ministry's security affairs and representatives from the Foreign Ministry, Ministry of Information and Iranian police.

The source added that the group left Iran for Iraq via the western city of Kermanshah, 526 km west of the capital Tehran.

He said that the group is to hold talks with Iraqi officials on the situation of an IRNA reporter arrested last week in Baghdad along with two of his staff as well as the fate of an Iranian diplomat who disappeared in early August while on his way to the Iraqi city of Karbala to assume consular duties.