US accuses Iran over Iraq Bombs

by Jordan Yerman | February 11, 2007 at 09:18 am

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Pardon me for saying so, but the US Government has a bit of a history of crying wolf. Pardon me further for not believing a word they say until confirmed by an outside source.

Considering that the US-led forces cannot control Iraq, which was nearly defenseless pre-invasion and has since been bombed back to the stone age, it does not take a four-star general to observe that spreading the invasion to Iran would be the height of stupidity.

The US military has accused the "highest levels" of Iran's government of supplying increasingly sophisticated roadside bombs to Iraqi insurgents.

Senior defence officials told reporters in Baghdad that the bombs were being used to deadly effect, killing more than 170 US troops since June 2004.

The weapons known as "explosively formed penetrators" (EFPs) are capable of destroying an Abrams tank.

US claims the bombs were smuggled from Iran cannot be independently verified.

The US officials, speaking off camera on condition of anonymity, said EFPs had also injured more than 620 US personnel since June 2004.

They said US intelligence analysts believed the bombs were manufactured in Iran and secretly sent to Iraqi Shia militants on the orders of senior officials in Tehran.