28 March 2011 - 19:30

An official with Qatar's interior ministry denied media reports that the country had seized two Iranian boats carrying weapons in the Persian Gulf as "inaccurate".

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - An official with Qatar's interior ministry denied media reports that the country had seized two Iranian boats carrying weapons in the Persian Gulf as "inaccurate".  

"The reports about the seizure in territorial waters of two Iranian boats loaded with weapons are inaccurate," the official QNA news agency quoted an interior ministry spokesman as saying.

The Kuwaiti electronic newspaper Al-Aan had allegedly claimed that the two Iranian boats were intercepted off the Al-Zubara coast, in the northeast of Qatar, and close to the country's territorial waters with Bahrain.

The newspaper's sources had provided no details on the crew, the date of the operation or the destination of the boats.

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