Official denies US plans to attack Iran

THE US ambassador to Azerbaijan denied a Russian press report that the Pentagon plans to use the Caucasus republic as a launching pad for military action against Iran.

“We have no such plans,” ambassador Ross Wilson told reporters in the Azeri capital Baku.

Russia’s Nezavisimaya Gazeya reported yesterday that the Pentagon had readied a plan for military action against Iran, which would include the use of US troops stationed in Azerbaijan and neighbouring Georgia.