No evidence Iran is arming insurgency

The Western media rarely challenges the United States on its quite unsubstantiated accusation that Iran is arming the insurgency, even though it is demonstrably false. Iran's UN spokesman M.A. Mohammadi, said:

"the recent accusations about Iran's role in sending arms and 'explosively formed penetrators' to Iraqi extremists to foment a civil war in the neighboring country are completely false and baseless."

Commenting on Iran's role in Afghanistan and Iraq he said, "the leaders of both these countries have praised Iran's constructive, good-neighbor policy toward them," and asked the U.S. government, "to proffer evidence regarding its accusations and to provide the list of Iranian agents who it alleges are operating in Iraq," which they have to date been unable to do.

Moreover, 85 percent of the detainees in U.S. custody are Sunnis. The 15 percent of Shia detainees are mainly from the Jaish al-Mahdi. Whereas Iran is more closely associated with their rivals, the Badr organisation. Therefore it is absurd to claim that Iran is arming the insurgency, yet the media stil do.