Senior Iran leaders aware of Qods Force in Iraq-US

BAGHDAD, July 2 (Reuters) Senior Iranian leaders know about the operations of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Qods Force in stirring up violence in Iraq, the US military said today.

The US military has long accused the Qods Force of arming and training Iraqi Shi'ite militants who attack US and Iraqi soldiers. Iran has repeatedly denied involvement in violence in Iraq.

''Our intelligence reveals that senior leadership in Iran is aware of this activity,'' US military spokesman Brigadier-General Kevin Bergner told a news conference in Baghdad, in some of the most direct accusations yet about how much Tehran's government knows of such operations.

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