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| Bush maintains pressure on Iran | Bush maintains pressure on Iran |
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| President Bush has insisted a branch of Iran's Revolutionary Guards is linked to some attacks on US troops in Iraq. | President Bush has insisted a branch of Iran's Revolutionary Guards is linked to some attacks on US troops in Iraq. |
| The US was "certain", he said, that the force was providing a weapon known as an EFP, which the US says has been used in particularly deadly attacks. | |
| But he said he did not know who was directing the force, and denied laying the groundwork for an attack on Iran. | But he said he did not know who was directing the force, and denied laying the groundwork for an attack on Iran. |
| Mr Bush also defended his strategy for securing Iraq a day after the House of Representatives began debating it. | |
| He admitted that it would take time to establish security in Baghdad, and said that violence would continue, but said it was vital to US security to succeed in Iraq. | |
| "If we fail there, the enemy will follow us here. I firmly believe that," he said. | |
| The US House of Representatives on Tuesday began debate on a resolution opposing the president's plan. | |
| The non-binding resolution is expected to pass easily, with as many as several dozen members of Mr Bush's Republican party joining the Democratic majority. |