Iran Threatens to Make US 'Regret' Arrest of Diplomats

"Jerusalem - Iran threatened on Tuesday to make the U.S. 'regret' its detention of Iranian diplomats earlier this year in Iraq.

The U.S. raided the Iranian consulate in the Kurdish-controlled northern Iraqi city of Irbil in January, arresting five Iranians and confiscating documents and computers. The U.S. accused the diplomats of being involved in the insurgency against American and Iraqi forces.

'We will make the U.S. regret its revolting [and] illegal action against our consulate agents,' Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said during a press conference on Tuesday, the Iranian news agency ISNA reported."

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