Washington, July 7 (ANI): Iranian influence is showing up more and more in attacks on troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, feel some members of the American leadership.
There is a view that Tehran is supplying trained Shia militias in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their targets are U.S. military personnel and their bases.
In June this year, fifteen Americans were killed in Iraq. This is said to be the highest casualty of Americans in more than two years in that country.
"You can clearly see what they are doing in Iraq," Senator Lindsey Graham (Republican, South Carolina), said of Iran in an interview with Fox News.
She added: "They are supplying Shia militias in Iraq and trying to disrupt our operations there and claiming that we were driven out."
Graham added that the threat is growing and has become a focal point of U.S. military leadership in Iraq.
Just a day earlier, U.S. Ambassador Jim Jeffrey on a trip to open the new U.S. consulate in Basra warned that U.S. commanders are seeing more lethal and accurate weapons flowing into Iraq from Iran.
That is a view echoed by Senator Joe Lieberman, Independent (Connecticut), who has just returned from Afghanistan.
However, the number two U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, Lt. General David Rodriguez, would not say publicly that the amount of Iranian weapons in Afghanistan was spiking.
Despite Rodriguez's claims of an insignificant increase, behind closed doors, U.S. commanders told a different story to visiting senators on a recent trip to Afghanistan.
"I did receive information that weapons were coming out of Iran to help the Taliban at a crucial moment in Afghanistan," Graham said.(ANI)
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