UK Lobbies Iran Over Weapons Smuggling Into Iraq

Dow Jones Newswires:

The U.K. has lodged a complaint with the Iranian government after bomb-making supplies were smuggled over the Iranian border into Iraq, a senior U.K. official said Wednesday. Police discovered the cache of timers, detonators and other arms in the southern Iraqi city of Maysan, just across the border from Iran, the official said.

He added officials strongly suspected the cache was linked with the Lebanese-based guerrilla group Hezbollah and Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards.

The U.K. has told the Iranian government in Tehran that it is completely unacceptable to allow arms to cross over the border, the official said.