Petraeus: Iran providing 'the weapons, the training, the funding and in some cases the direction for operations that have... killed U.S. soldiers'

Above: A soldier from the 1st Cavalry Division displays U.S. Army field manuals and training aides uncovered in a weapons cache his unit discovered near Baqubah in February. The weapons cache held enough raw material to build over 150 explosively formed pentetrators, which the U.S. says come from Iran.

General David Petraeus, speaking at a U.S. military base about 30 km (20 miles) from the Iranian border on Saturday, said Iran was giving advanced weaponry to militias in Iraq.

"They are responsible for providing the weapons, the training, the funding and in some cases the direction for operations that have indeed killed U.S. soldiers," Petraeus told a small group of reporters when asked if the Iranian government was responsible for killing U.S. troops.

"There is no question about the connection between Iran and these components, (the) attacks that have killed our soldiers."...

Petraeus said Iran was supplying advanced rocket-propelled grenades, shoulder-fired "Stinger-like" air defence missiles, components to make EFPs and 240 mm rockets to militias in Iraq.

Petraeus also suggested there was an Iranian link in the assassination of two provincial governors in southern Iraq in August. Both were killed by roadside bombs.

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