Is Iran trying to stem flow of EFPs into Iraq?

[unhappycamper]

Is Iran trying to stem flow of EFPs into Iraq?
By Jeff Schogol, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Saturday, November 3, 2007

ARLINGTON, Va. — Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that his understanding is Iran has informed the Iraqi government that it will try to stem the flow of Explosively Formed Penetrators into Iraq.

“I don’t know whether to believe them,” Gates said Thursday. “I’ll wait and see.”

He did not say where he learned of these supposed assurances, nor could he say who in Iran might have made such assurances to the Iraqi government.

Known as “EFPs,” the penetrators are a deadly type of roadside bomb that fire a slug of high density metal at between 4,000 and 6,500 miles per hour.

The projectile flies with such velocity that it is up to nine times as powerful as a roadside bomb of similar size made of artillery shells that are rigged to explode.

U.S. government officials have long accused the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of providing EFPs to insurgents in Iraq, but they have not shown a direct link between the Iranian government and EFP attacks in Iraq.


Rest of article at: http://stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=49987

[eridani]

1. Didn't say how they propose to stop non-governmental actors, either n/t

[hobbit709]

2. They don't need Iran

Any garage or machine shop has the tools needed to make one. And after leaving the ammo dumps unguarded, there's no shortage of HE either. And what is the reason for the Quds Force(a bunch of Shia) supplying the Sunnis-that hasn't been satisfactorily explained by our wonderful misleaders.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. So, Iran is now ADMITTING that they're the source of EFP's?

...and this info comes from the official US military newspaper (via Defense Sec. Gates, which he says is "...his understanding")?

Call me cynical, but I'm not quite buying this.:eyes:

[Historic NY]

4. Me neither...........

Iraqis are completely capable of making their own and have been for the most part.

[rakeeb]

5. Whether it's lack of ability,

or just plain laziness, they are still more than willing to receive/buy them as opposed to making their own.