Daily Telegraph: Britain blamed Iran yesterday for a spate of roadside bomb attacks that killed at least eight British soldiers in the past six months. A senior diplomat said technology used in the devices was similar to that given by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to the Hizbollah movement in Lebanon. “All of the British deaths are linked to Iranian technology,” he said, abandoning the usual Foreign Office reserve.

The Guardian: Britain and Iran clashed openly last night after a senior British official directly accused Tehran of supplying Iraqi insurgents with sophisticated roadside bombs that have killed eight British soldiers and two security guards since May.

Daily Telegraph: For the past two years, the Foreign Office has done its utmost to defend Iran from American accusations that Iranian mullahs were stirring trouble in Iraq. “On the contrary,” British diplomats retorted, “Iran is being very helpful in the political process. It has an interest in stability in Iraq.”

AFP: Iraqi parliament speaker Hajim al-Hasani has accused Iran of being behind the assassination of two top Shiite Muslim clerics in Iraq in 2003, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported.

The Times: Britain has accused Iran of helping to kill British soldiers in southern Iraq.
Six soldiers and two security guards have died in the past three months, all victims of a new explosives technique supplied via Iran, a senior British official said yesterday.

Reuters: Britain accused Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Wednesday of supplying weapons to Shi’ite militia in Iraq
used to attack British troops.