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Israel denies report that abducted IDF soldiers were turned over to Iran
By Jack Khoury, Haaretz Correspondent and Service
Tags: Eldad Regev 

Officials in the Prime Minister's Office denied a report published Sunday according to which Israel Defense Forces soldiers abducted last year by Hezbollah were transferred to Iran shortly after their capture.

According to the report in the London-based Arabic-language newspaper Asharq Alawsat, neither Eldad Regev nor Ehud Goldwasser are still alive, but negotiations are being made between Iran and Germany to secure the return of their bodies.

The PMO officials called the report "another dissemination of misinformation."
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The report came amid information of a secret deal between Berlin and Tehran over the release of senior Iranian intelligence officer Kazem Darabi, who is accused of orchestrating the murder of an Iranian Kurdish leader and three of his associates in a Berlin restaurant in 1992.

A source close to Iran's spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Darabi's release from incarceration in Germany would be carried out as part of secret negotiations with Berlin in return for the IDF soldiers' remains, said the report.

If the report is correct, it would not be the first time Germany served as party to negotiations for the release of abducted IDF soldiers. In 2004, German intelligence chief Ernst Urlau conducted the talks that led to the release by Hezbollah of Israeli Elhanan Tenenbaum and the bodies of IDF soldiers Adi Avitan, Benny Avraham and Omar Suad.

Israel last week denied a report claiming it believes Goldwasser and Regev were killed during their abduction by Hezbollah last July.

The denial came in response to a report in the London-based Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat, in which a French diplomatic source was quoted as saying Israel believes Goldwasser and Regev had died from wounds incurred in the cross-border attack.

Jerusalem said there was no change in its assumption that the two soldiers whose kidnapping by the Lebanese Islamic group sparked the Second Lebanon War were still alive.

Israel believes Hezbollah's refusal to allow visits to the soldiers were a "maneuver" to hide their fate, al-Hayat's sources said.

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