In Iran, Revolutionary Guards play growing role in economy, government

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TEHRAN, Iran: They own car factories and construction firms, operate newspaper groups and oil fields and increasingly, serve in parliament or become provincial governors. To supporters, the Revolutionary Guards are the cream of the country's talent.
To the United States, they are simply terrorists.

U.S. military releases Iranians in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. soldiers released eight members of an Iranian delegation on Wednesday, a day after the group was arrested at a hotel in eastern Baghdad, the U.S. military and an Iraqi government spokesman said.

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Is Iran Aiding Iraq's Militias?

It's just before 3 a.m. in the southern Iraqi town of Seddah, and the Americans are rushing down a darkened street that smells of eucalyptus and gasoline. A moment later the sound of a door crashing in splits the nighttime hush. U.S. troops barrel into a gritty little house in search of militants thought to be responsible for a series of roadside bombings using armor-piercing explosively formed projectiles, or EFPs, which U.S. military officials say come directly from Iran. The soldiers immediately corral the women and children into one room and force three men in the house to lay face down at gunpoint on the floor of another in front of a television glowing blue-green on mute. As other troops begin tossing the place to find any hidden weapons and propaganda, a scene from a late-night newscast flickers. There's Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, in Tehran that day, smiling and shaking hands with the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the flashbulbs from cameras silently pop.

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