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BEHOLD, I WILL STIR UP THE MEDES….

AXIS of Evil: IRAN must be stopped

WASHINGTON -- While the White House dwells on Iran's nuclear program, senior
U.S. diplomats and military officers fear that an incident on the ground in Iraq is a

more likely trigger for a possible confrontation with the Is-
lamic Republic.

The risk of a collision on the ground in Iraq has been grow-
ing since January, when Bush condemned Iran's activities in
Iraq, threatened to destroy Iranian networks he said were

providing military gear to anti-U.S. forces, and dis-

patched additional warships and other mili-

tary hardware to the region.

Suddenly, U.S. officials who had been complaining publicly

that Iran was broadly meddling were now accusing Teh-

ran of responsibility for the deaths of hun-
dreds of U.S. troops. They focused especially on the activities of the Quds

Force, an elite and ideologically motivated unit of the Revolutionary Guard Corps that
the U.S. believes has sent hundreds of members across the porous border with Iraq to
help train and provide weaponry to anti-American militias.

U.S. intelligence officials continue to track the flow of weapons they say come from
Iran, and believe that in addition to much-
publicized explosively formed projectiles -
- roadside bombs that can penetrate ar-
mored vehicles -- Iran is supplying rocket-

propelled grenades, shoulder-fired
antiaircraft missiles and large rocket
launchers, according to a senior military
official in Baghdad.

However, U.S. military officials have pro-
vided limited evidence of these charges,

and some outside analysts and foreign of-
ficials remain dubious of the extent of
Iranian President Ahmadinejad inspecting Rev-
Tehran's involvement. olutionary Guard Corps

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