Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Qatar Denies Intercepting Iranian Ships
Amid escalating tensions in the strategic Persian Gulf region, Qatar's Interior Ministry has described as baseless reports about the capture of two arms-laden Iranian boats.
"The reports about the seizure in territorial waters of two Iranian boats loaded with weapons are inaccurate," the official Qatar News Agency (QNA) quoted a statement by an official source at the Interior Ministry as saying on Sunday.
The reports came after the Kuwaiti electronic newspaper Al-Aan reported earlier on Sunday that two Iranian boats had been intercepted off the Al-Zubara coast, northeast of Qatar, where the territorial waters of Bahrain and Qatar converge.'
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