Iran forms panel with Iraq on border issues; Move is politically complex in Baghdad as terror concerns rise.(Main)

Byline: JOHN F. BURNS New York Times

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki of Iran, on the second day of his visit to Iraq, said Saturday that the two countries had agreed to form a joint commission to oversee border issues and that its primary task would be to "block saboteurs" crossing the 700-mile border.

"We plan to form a joint com mission between Iran and Iraq to control our borders and block the way to saboteurs whose aim is to destabilize the security of the two countries," Mottaki said in Najaf after talks with Iraq's most powerful Shiite religious leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani.

Mottaki said improved border …