Even as the Iraq Study Group prepares its recommendation that the U.S. and its allies turn to Iran and Syria for aid in stabilizing Iraq, evidence has emerged showing that Iran is supplying weapons to be used against coalition forces in Iraq.

U.S. officials say they have found smoking-gun evidence of Iranian support for terrorists in Iraq: brand-new weapons fresh from Iranian factories. According to a senior defense official, coalition forces have recently seized Iranian-made weapons and munitions that bear manufacturing dates in 2006.

This suggests, say the sources, that the material is going directly from Iranian factories to Shia militias, rather than taking a roundabout path through the black market. “There is no way this could be done without (Iranian) government approval,” says a senior official.

Iranian-made munitions found in Iraq include advanced IEDs designed to pierce armor and anti-tank weapons. U.S. intelligence believes the weapons have been supplied to Iraq’s growing Shia militias from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which is also believed to be training Iraqi militia fighters in Iran.

Then you also have Shiite militiamen being trained and equipped by Hezbollah.

As Andrew McCarthy at NRO puts it:

Let?s talk with our enemies, Iran and Syria. Let?s talk with terror abettors as if they were good guys ? just like us. As if they were just concerned neighbors trying to stop the bloodshed in Iraq ? instead of the dons who?ve been commanding it all along.

This would be like asking China to help get the Viet Cong under control so we could widthdraw from Southeast Asia.

Madness.

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