… rejects accusations it armed insurgents

Iran on Monday rejected US accusations that the highest levels of Iranian leadership have armed Shi’ite militants in Iraq with armour-piercing roadside bombs, a day after US military officials in Baghdad said they had traced the weapons to Tehran.

“Such accusations cannot be relied upon or be presented as evidence. The US has a long history in fabricating evidence. Such charges are unacceptable,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini told reporters.

But Hosseini said Iran’s top leaders were not intervening in Iraq and considered “any intervention in Iraq’s internal affairs as a weakening of the popular Iraqi government, and we are opposed to that.”