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Missile hits iran { March 22 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10132-2003Mar22.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10132-2003Mar22.html CORRECTED: U.S. Apology to Iran Story Withdrawn Reuters Saturday, March 22, 2003; 12:21 PM (The WASHINGTON story headlined 'U.S. apologizes to Iran for errant missile' is wrong. A U.S. official says a message was sent to Iran but it did not contain an apology.) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has told Iran it takes a report of a misfired missile that landed in Iranian territory seriously and will investigate it, a U.S. official said on Saturday, retracting an earlier statement that Washington had apologized for the incident. "There is no apology. There is nothing to apologize for yet," said the official, who said he was "misinformed" that an apology had been offered to Tehran. Instead, he said that after the United States received a message from Tehran about a report of a misfired missile that struck an oil refinery depot "we responded last night through the Swiss channel saying that we take this seriously and will look into it." "Today, we are sending another message saying we are looking into it," he said. "We have to find out what happened. Apparently there are different schools of thought" as to what might have occurred. Iran, which is torn by its hatred for the two main protagonists in the war in Iraq, has blamed U.S. jets for firing three missiles that landed in southwestern Iran and accused U.S. and British forces of violating its airspace. © 2003 Reuters

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