Five Shiite politicians left Wednesday with "evidence, confessions and pictures" indicating that Iran is supplying weapons and training fighters who are locked in a violent standoff with U.S. and Iraqi troops, the government official said.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to release the information, said the delegation would present the Iranian government with material that implicated Iran's elite Quds Force.
The delegation was expected to meet with Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to discuss the issue and stress that ongoing clashes between Shiite extremists and U.S.-Iraqi forces were threatening political gains by Shiites.
Behind the Iraqis will be US power and the promise of greater Iraqi power in the future. The Iraqis will no doubt make sure the Iranians know that Iraqis will neither forget nor forgive Iran once Iraq builds its military into a full-spectrum force, if the Iranians don't shut down the flow of arms, training, and money to thugs who are killing Iraqis and American soldiers.
