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Iran denies supplying Kinshasa with Scud missiles

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    The Iranian government on Wednesday denied a ‘Washington Times’ report on Monday that it had sold Scud missiles to the DRC government. “The matter is categorically denied,” AFP quoted an Iranian embassy spokesman in South Africa as saying. Kinshasa has also denied the report. The acquisition of Scuds for use in a bush war like that in the DRC was considered “unlikely” by defence analysts quoted by AFP. “In a rebellion in Congo, it is a totally ludicrous weapon,” it quoted Jakkie Potgieter of the Institute for Security Studies in South Africa as saying.

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