So now we are snatching Iranian diplomats off the Iraqi streets?

What else will Bush do to incite Iran to war?

Iraqi and Iranian officials have said that men wearing Iraqi army uniforms have seized an Iranian diplomat as he drove through a central Baghdad neighbourhood.

Jalal Sharafi, the second secretary at the Iranian embassy in Baghdad, was snatched in the central Karrada district by 30 gunmen in Iraqi army uniforms on Sunday.

Mohammad Ali Hosseini, an Iranian foreign ministry spokesman, said Sharafi was seized by a group working under US supervision.

"Based on reliable information, the group which has committed this completely terrorist act, are active under the supervision of the American forces," he said.

Update: Iran appeals to Iraqi and Swiss diplomats for help:

Tehran - Iran on Tuesday summoned the ambassadors of Iraq and Switzerland to the foreign ministry and protested against the kidnapping of an Iranian diplomat in Baghdad, the news network Khabar reported.

The foreign ministry demanded the immediate release of Jalal Sharafi, Second Secretary of the Iranian embassy in Baghdad, and said Tehran was holding both the US and Switzerland responsible for his safety.