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Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2322713.stm
Britain Woos the Iranians
(BBC) James Robbins - Iran is a country with two paramount enemies - the United States and Iraq. It's also a country with two governments - the revolutionary ultra-conservative clerical one of the mullahs and the modernising civilian one led by President Khatami. There is deep anger against the United States for lumping Iran with Iraq in that notorious "axis of evil." There were hints too that Iran would not actively frustrate an American-led war on Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of Iranians died in the eight years after Saddam Hussein invaded back in 1980. An Iranian still dies almost every day as a result of the gas attacks Saddam used against them.