Iran Did Not Supply Weapons to Iraqi Rebels
by James Buchanan
A recent news article reports “In a sharp reversal of its longstanding accusations against Iran arming militants in Iraq , the US military has made an unprecedented albeit quiet confession: the weapons they had recently found in Iraq were not made in Iran at all. According to a report by the LA Times correspondent Tina Susman in Baghdad: ‘A plan to show some alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to journalists last week in Karbala and then destroy them was cancelled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran. A U.S. military spokesman attributed the confusion to a misunderstanding that emerged after an Iraqi Army general in Karbala erroneously reported the items were of Iranian origin. When U.S. explosives experts went to investigate, they discovered they were not Iranian after all.’ The US, which until two weeks ago had never provided any proof for its allegations, finally handed over its ‘evidence’ of the Iranian origin of these weapons to the Iraqi government. Last week, an Iraqi delegation to Iran presented the US ‘evidence’ to Iranian officials. According to Al-Abadi, a parliament member from the ruling United Iraqi Alliance who was on the delegation, the Iranian officials totally refuted ‘training, financing and arming’ militant groups in Iraq . Consequently the Iraqi government announced that there is no hard evidence against Iran.”
So after months of the Bush and the neocons trying to provoke war –publicly accusing the Iranians of supplying weapons used to kill US soldiers, the Iraqi government has conducted an investigation and has completely contradicted the Bush regime’s claims and has cleared the Iranians of any wrong doing.
Notice that this revelation is getting virtually no press whatsoever aside from a few alternative news websites on the Internet. In fact, it would be no surprise if Bush or Cheney came out tomorrow and made a speech repeating all of the dishonest accusations they’ve made against Iran over the last six months. (more…)