Iran Expected To Have Final Word On PoW Deal

  • Middle East Newsline
  • November 25, 2009
TEL AVIV [MENL] -- The Israeli intelligence community has assessed that Iran
was granted veto power over any prisoner-of-war deal with the Jewish state.
Israeli sources said Hamas and the government of Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu have advanced toward the release of Cpl. Gilad Shalit for more
than 1,000 Palestinian and Israeli Arab prisoners. But the sources said the
final decision over a PoW deal would be made by Iran
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