Via Robert Farley, Gareth Porter reports that the surge of warmongering that tried to finger Iran as the main culprit behind weapons being used against the United States in Iraq was bullshit:
The caches that included Iranian weapons thus represented just 2 percent of all caches found. That means Iranian-made weapons were a fraction of one percent of the total weapons found in Shi’a militia caches during that period.
The extremely small proportion of Iranian arms in Shi’a militia weapons caches further suggests that Shi’a militia fighters in Iraq had been getting weapons from local and international arms markets rather than from an official Iranian-sponsored smuggling network.
At this point, one certainly hopes that the election has put war with Iran firmly off the table. But it’s still crucially important to correct the record.
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