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Wednesday, 03 October 2007 |
 BAGHDAD (AFP) — An Iranian arrested by US forces in Iraq's Kurdish region had been involved in Tehran's intelligence operations in Iraq for more than a decade, an American general said on Wednesday.
"Multiple sources" had also implicated him in providing weapons to "Iraqi criminal elements in the service of Iran," US military spokesman Major General Kevin Bergner told a news conference in Baghdad.
On September 20, US troops raided a hotel in Sulaimaniyah in the
autonomous northern autonomous region and seized Mahmudi Farhadi,
claiming he was a member of the Quds Force, the covert operations arm
of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards.
Bergner insisted on Wednesday that the detainee was a Quds Force operative.
"Farhadi was the officer in charge of the Zafar command, one of three
subordinates of the Ramazan core of the Quds Force," Bergner said.
"As Zafar commander, he was responsible for Quds Force operations in
north-central Iraq, including cross border transfers of weapons, people
and money.
"We also know that for more than a decade he was involved in Iranian
intelligence operations in Iraq," he added, without elaborating.
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