Is Iran Helping Insurgents?

An exclusive article today from ABC News reports that coalition forces have found "smoking gun" proof that Iran is aiding the insurgents in Iraq. "According to a senior defense official," ABC reports, "coalition forces have recently seized Iranian-made weapons and munitions that bear manufacturing dates in 2006." The discovery of such weapons means that insurgents aren't getting their arms from the black market, but rather they are being handed to them from Iran.

This news has to be awkward for Iran, who recently invited the Iraqi prime minister into talks to receive aid. If the Iraqi leaders are stupid enough to fall for Iran's ploy, then of course the violence in Iraq will begin to fade away... because Iran is causing it! Iran is merely holding out a helping hand to Iraq so that it can turn the country against America, tear down their democratically elected government, and then conquer Iraq.

ABC reports:

ranian-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.

Evidence is mounting, too, that the most powerful militia in Iraq, Moktada al-Sadr's Mahdi army, is receiving training support from the Iranian-backed terrorists of Hezbollah.

If it wasn't before, it is now painfully clear what will happen to Iraq if coalition forces cut and run. The insurgents of Iraq aren't just people fighting for their country, they are trained soldiers getting aid from foreign nations. Iran would love to take over Iraq, and I believe they plan to do so one way or another: either by helping the insurgents achieve victory, or befriending the prime minister and taking over the government.