Iraq sent Israel messages via Russian and French intermediaries promising not to launch a missile attack on the Jewish state, an unnamed official in the Israeli defense establishment was reported as saying. In a television interview, Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai confirmed that “there have been open messages and secret messages.” Iraqi officials, however, publicly denied ever sending such communiques.
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