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Iran Still Sliding Iraq Arms: US

Pentagon report says weapons, training still flowing across border

By Polly Davis Doig,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 17, 2007 6:41 PM CST
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(Newser) – Stability in Iraq may be increasing, but the flow of arms and insurgents across its border with Iran has slowed little, reports the Wall Street Journal. A Pentagon report, to be presented to Congress tomorrow, will frame Iraq's overall security in a positive light, but again call into question how much credit Iran deserves—even as the White House weighs a diplomatic approach.

Though specific attacks linked to Iranian weapons have fallen off, the Pentagon maintains that Iran continues to send rockets, mortars, missiles, and training personnel. The report isn't "arguing that Iran's behavior is getting worse, but it's also not arguing that Iran's behavior is getting better," said a US officer.

A rocket attack sparked fires along a Baghdad street in this Oct. 30, 2003 file photo. The Pentagon will release a report tomorrow that says Iran is still undermining Iraqi security by allowing the flow of mortars, rockets, and explosives across the border.
A rocket attack sparked fires along a Baghdad street in this Oct. 30, 2003 file photo. The Pentagon will release a report tomorrow that says Iran is still undermining Iraqi security by allowing the flow...   (KRT Photos)
A US military explosives expert displays explosives used by Iraqi militants, including allegedly Iranian-made armor-penetrating roadside bomb in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, July 2, 2007. A U.S. military spokesman in Iraq said Monday that Iran is using the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah as a proxy to arm Shiite militants in...
A US military explosives expert displays explosives used by Iraqi militants, including allegedly Iranian-made armor-penetrating roadside bomb in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, July 2, 2007. A U.S. military spokesman...   (Associated Press)
Iran is still permitting the flow of weapons and training personnel across its border with Iraq, a new Pentagon report finds.
Iran is still permitting the flow of weapons and training personnel across its border with Iraq, a new Pentagon report finds.   (Shutter Stock)
A man crosses from Iran into Iraq at the Zarbatiya border crossing, 160 kilometers (100 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007. U.S. soldiers are stepping up their training of Iraqi border guards in this sparsely populated mountainous area southeast of Baghdad, believed to be a...
A man crosses from Iran into Iraq at the Zarbatiya border crossing, 160 kilometers (100 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007. U.S. soldiers are stepping up their training of...   (Associated Press)
Pedestrians walks at the Iraq-Iran border crossing of Haj Omran about 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of Irbil, a city in the Kurdish controlled north 350 kilometers (217 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, Oct. 8, 2007. Iran reopened Monday five border crossing points with Kurdish-run northern Iraq, closed...
Pedestrians walks at the Iraq-Iran border crossing of Haj Omran about 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of Irbil, a city in the Kurdish controlled north 350 kilometers (217 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq,...   (Associated Press)
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