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But a local political analyst in Tehran, who asked not to be named, said it was unlikely that the rockets had originated from British or U.S. forces.

``If you look at the trajectory of the military assault being carried out in Iraq by the British and Americans, these bombs would have been way off course, which just doesn't seem likely,'' he said.

He said another possibility was that the rockets came from Iraqi forces trying to shoot down U.S. and British planes.

Iran has little sympathy for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who ordered the use of chemical weapons against Iranian troops in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.

But Tehran also has poor relations with Washington, which severed diplomatic ties with Iran shortly after the 1979 Islamic revolution and last year included it in the ``axis of evil'' list along with Iraq and North Korea.