Iran offered England a "way out" of Iraq "without body bags" in a deal against the United States.
U.K. Ambassador, Sir John Sawers, said that our soldiers in Iraq were being killed by Iran. There was then an offer from the Iranians that they would stop attacking British troops if we dropped U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran's uranium enrichment program.
Sir Sawers said that Iranians came to London "for tea"; and in a secret deal with the British Army made the offer: "We stop killing you in Iraq, if you stop your United Nation action on our Nuclear Project."
There was no such "tea deal" with the Americans. For five years, Iran continued to support resistence against US forces, supplying money and weapons to the Iraqi insurgents from 2003 to 2007. US commanders had many a times captured and displayed Iranian made bombs during the occupation of Iraq.
As a consequence of weapons from Iran, United States continued to see increasing numbers of death and injuries among their troops.
APN - 02/19/2009