And go into Iran.
WA****NGTON =97 The U.S. military says it has found caches of newly made
Iranian weapons in Iraq, leading senior officials to conclude Tehran
is continuing to funnel armaments into Iraq despite its pledges to the
contrary, the Wall Street Journal re****ted Friday.
Officials in Wa****ngton and Baghdad said the pur****ted Iranian
mortars, rockets and explosives had date stamps indicating they were
manufactured in the past two months. The U.S. plans to publicize the
weapons caches in coming days. A pair of senior commanders said a
presentation was tentatively planned for Monday, the paper re****ted.
"You can see the manufacturing dates right on the armaments
themselves," one senior commander in Baghdad said. "These are very
clearly weapons that were made in the last month or so."
The allegations, which couldn't be independently verified, mark a
further hardening of U.S. rhetoric on Iran, which senior American
officials now describe as the greatest long-term threat to Iraq.
Iran has long denied that its government knowingly funneled weapons
into Iraq or trained ****ite militants there. It has derided the U.S.
claims as propaganda. Several senior U.S. military officials said the
weapons caches would undercut the Iranian denials and provide new
evidence of continuing Iranian sup****t for ****ite militants across
Iraq.
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