Iran Continues to Support Shiite Militias in Iraq, Pentagon Says
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A new Pentagon report has concluded that Iran continues to provide money, training and weapons to Shiite militias in Iraq, although U.S. commanders previously stated that attacks using lethal bombs linked to Iran have fallen in recent months.
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Iran on Monday rejected U.S. accusations that the highest levels of Iranian leadership have armed Shiite militants in Iraq with armor-piercing roadside bombs, a day after U.S. military officials in Baghdad said they had traced the weapons to Tehran.
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Iran is funneling weapons and cash to   buy the loyalty of armed groups in Iraq, but its long- term   influence is bound to wane as Iraqis focus more on their own   interests, a senior U.S. military official said.
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Iraq is stepping up efforts to improve relations with neighbouring Iran, which has been highly critical of the military action against Shiite militias in Iraq.
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The United States accused Iran in talks on Tuesday of increasing support for militias involved in bloodshed in Iraq but, in a rare sign of cooperation, agreed with Tehran to set up a panel to improve security.
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Senior Iranian leaders know about the operations of Iran's Qods Force in fomenting violence in Iraq, the U.S. military said on Monday, in some of the most direct accusations yet against Tehran over the chaos in Iraq.
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Iran on Monday rejected U.S. accusations that the highest levels of Iranian leadership have armed Shiite militants in Iraq with armor-piercing roadside bombs
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The Iranian government has decided "at the most senior levels" to rein in the violent Shiite militias it supports in Iraq, a move reflected in a sharp decrease in sophisticated roadside bomb attacks over the past several months, according to the State Department's top official on Iraq.
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(Corrects spelling of Iranian president's name to Ahmadinejad throughout from Ahmedinejad)     BAGHDAD  - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has told Iraq he supports a crackdown on Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq but wants a peaceful solution to the crisis, Iraq's government said.
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The U.S. ambassador to Iraq praised Iran on Sunday for helping to curb Shi'ite militia violence in Iraq on Sunday, using some of the warmest language Washington has employed toward its arch foe over Iraq.
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Senior U.S. military officials presented their first public evidence for the assertion that Iran is supplying Shiite extremists in Iraq with lethal weapons.
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Iran's president pledged undying support   for Baghdad's new government on Tuesday, telling Iraq's   visiting prime minister and fellow Shi'ite Islamist, Nuri   al-Maliki, that Tehran would help him end the violence at home.
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Senior Iranian leaders know about the operations of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Qods Force in stirring up violence in Iraq, the U.S. military said on Monday.
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The assertion of an Iranian role in supplying the device to Shiite militias reflects broad agreement among American intelligence agencies.
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The Pentagon is preparing to build a military base near the Iraq-Iran border to try to curtail the flow of advanced Iranian weaponry to Shiite militants across Iraq, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday in its online edition.
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The government has appeared to back US claims that Iran had supplied weapons and explosives to Shia militants in neighbouring Iraq for use against coalition forces.
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The U.S. military spokesman in Iraq said Wednesday that all indications showed that radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr remained in Iran.