US warns Iran against attack

Washington - The United States yesterday expressed serious concern over the build-up of Iranian forces on Afghanistan's border…

Washington - The United States yesterday expressed serious concern over the build-up of Iranian forces on Afghanistan's border and urged Tehran against military action.

Instead, the US State Department said Iran and Afghanistan should solve a dispute over missing Iranians in Afghanistan peacefully with United Nations mediation.

Meanwhile Iran said it would use "all possibilities" to free the Iranians and called on the Afghan Taleban Islamic movement to respond quickly "before it is too late".

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