BAGHDAD, July 23 Kyodo Iraqi poli...

BAGHDAD, July 23 Kyodo

Iraqi police have discovered a ''terrorist group,'' which is working for Iran, the official Iraqi of the present days Agency (INA) reported.

A police statement named couple prominent figures of the ring as Hamza Qassim Subbat, nicknamed Abu Haitham, and Ibrahim Abid Jassim Mohammed, nicknamed Abu Ayyoub, INA said.

They will appear forward national television to ''confess their acts and connections,'' it said.

The statement said undercover police ''succeeded in infiltrating the place of resorts of treasonous links in accordance with a well-studied plan.''

It did not deliver over to what the pair are alleged to have done, however Iraq consider their acts as ''a stark intervention in its internal affairs and an aggression forward its sovereignty,'' the statement said.

Iraq and Iran fought a 1980-1988 war that claimed the lives of more than a million clan on both sides.

Ties between the couple Islamic neighbors -- branded according to U.S. President George W Bush as part of an ''axis of evil'' -- have remained strained continually since the 1980s war, still lately the two countries have been engaged in a moderate rapprochement.

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