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ABC New is scheduled to run a report tonite (3/7/2006) concerning weapons made in Iran being used in Iraq. According to ABC News:
The NYT reported on 8/6/2005 that:
In October 2005, according to the BBC, Tony Blair warned Iran that Iran had been linked to bomb attacks on British troops in Iraq:
If the Iranian government is responsible, isn't this an act of war?
U.S. military and intelligence officials tell ABC News that they have caught shipments of deadly new bombs at the Iran-Iraq border.
They are a very nasty piece of business, capable of penetrating U.S. troops' strongest armor.
What the United States says links them to Iran are tell-tale manufacturing signatures — certain types of machine-shop welds and material indicating they are built by the same bomb factory.
"The signature is the same because they are exactly the same in production," says explosives expert Kevin Barry. "So it's the same make and model."
U.S. officials say roadside bomb attacks against American forces in Iraq have become much more deadly as more and more of the Iran-designed and Iran-produced bombs have been smuggled in from the country since last October.
"I think the evidence is strong that the Iranian government is making these IEDs, and the Iranian government is sending them across the border and they are killing U.S. troops once they get there," says Richard Clarke, former White House counterterrorism chief and an ABC News consultant. "I think it's very hard to escape the conclusion that, in all probability, the Iranian government is knowingly killing U.S. troops."
U.S. intelligence officials say Iran is using the bombs as a way to drive up U.S. casualties in Iraq but without provoking a direct confrontation.
The NYT reported on 8/6/2005 that:
Many of the new, more sophisticated roadside bombs used to attack American and government forces in Iraq have been designed in Iran and shipped in from there, United States military and intelligence officials said Friday, raising the prospect of increased foreign help for Iraqi insurgents.
In October 2005, according to the BBC, Tony Blair warned Iran that Iran had been linked to bomb attacks on British troops in Iraq:
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has issued a warning to Iran, saying "information" linked it to recent bomb attacks on British troops in Iraq.
He said evidence led either to Iran or its Lebanese militant allies Hezbollah, although "we can't be sure of this".
He warned Iran that there could be "no justification" for interfering in Iraq.
If the Iranian government is responsible, isn't this an act of war?