Trained militants. Iran's Revolutionary Guards Photo: AF
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Documents made public by WikiLeaks recount Tehran's role in providing Iraqi militia fighters with rockets, magnetic bombs, rifles, surface-to-air missiles used against American helicopters; according to documents, militants
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Tens of thousands of classified US military documents, which were made public by WikiLeaks on Friday, shed light on the strong ties between the armed militias in Iraq and the Iranian regime, news agencies reported.
The American daily said the reports assert that Iraqi militants went to Iran to be trained as snipers and in the use of explosives by the Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah operatives.
'Iran looking to weaken government in Iraq'
The reports indicated that the training of Iraqi militants was also conducted in Iraq itself.
According to the New York Times, American military officials based in Baghdad had issued a secret warning in December 2006 that a Shiite militia commander was hatching plans to take American soldiers hostage after undergoing training by Middle East masters.
They claimed that Iraqi militant Azhar al-Dulaimi was trained in dark arts of paramilitary operations near Qum, Iran.
The secret US field reports from the battlegrounds of Iraq also indicate that Iran encouraged Iraqi militants to carry out as many suicide attacks as possible and that Tehran was behind the murder of senior Iraqi government officials by Iraqi militants.
“Iran is gaining control of Iraq at many levels of the Iraqi government,” the report warned.
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This has been reported for months i.e. Iran's involvement in Iraqi, so not actually "news"! However, the real question should be, knowing of Iran's involvement in Pakistan, should be: Will Pakistan and Afghanistan be any different once the U.S. pulls our troops out next years?
How different, when it is known that the U.S. is sitting down at the table with the Taliban?
Will the outcome of over ten years in Afghanistan be any different than Iraq?! Iran is proceeding nicely with their nuclear program; supplying weapons to half the Middle East, and has it eyes on controlling each and every country (and army) throughout the M.E.
To-date, has the U.S. and the U.N. been able to prevent Iran from its ambitions?
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