Sunday, September 23, 2007

Fox: Iran smuggling rocket-propelled grenade launchers, EFPs, 240 mm rockets and surface-to-air missiles into Iraq for use against U.S. troops

Left: An Iranian Misagh-1 surface to air missile.

Iran is smuggling advanced weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, into Iraq to be used by extremists against American troops, the US military charged on Sunday.

US military spokesman Rear Admiral Mark Fox told reporters in Baghdad that Iran was shifting sophisticated arms such as ‘RPG-29s, explosively-formed penetrators (EFPs), 240 mm rockets and Misagh-1 surface-to-air missiles’ across its borders into Iraq.

An EFP is a feared roadside bomb which when it explodes emits a white-hot slug of molten copper that can cut through the armoured skins of US military vehicles.

Fox reiterated that Iranian national Mahmudi Farhadi, detained on Thursday in the northern province of Sulaimaniyah, is one of the kingpins in the bomb smuggling operations.

‘He is a member of the Ramazan Corps, the Quds Force department responsible for all operations in Iraq,’ Fox said.

Read the rest at Khaleej Times

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