Arms smuggling operations thru Iranian borders towards Iraq are still ongoing, Iraq Ministry of Interior said stressing that some Iraqi officers are involved in these operations, Alsumarianews reported.
Iraq Interior Minister former deputy Adnan Al Assadi told that smuggling arms from Iran thru Missan Province is ongoing in large quantities in an official and unofficial way and it includes rockets and mortars. He also stressed that arms smugglers are being overlooked.
"During the last period, security forces arrested 3 officers who make part of an arms smuggling network one of them works in the ministry of Justice, the other one works in anti terrorism apparatus and the third works in borders troops," Assadi added.
This revelation comes a month after British Embassy in Baghdad accused Iran in July 10 of smuggling arms t Iraq in order to kill Iraqis and US and discarded any role for Syrian government in the ongoing situation in the country.
Some Iraqi forces accuse Iran of ensuring support and arms for armed groups in Iraq and facilitating their entry in addition to supporting a lot of violence acts. The same sources added that Iraq security apparatuses found Iranian made arms during the last few years but Iraqi and Iranian government didn't give this issue any importance and deny any interference.
Iran repeatedly asked those who accuse it of interfering in Iraqi affairs to provide proofs and evidence in regards of these accusations the last of which was voiced by Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi during his visit to Baghdad in August 5, 2011. Salehi had also stressed that Teheran policy during the last 30 years is based on the principle of non-interference in other countries affairs.