[Telegraph-UK] Alex Spillius - America's commander in Iraq warned Tuesday that Iranian support for Shi'ite militias posed the gravest threat to securing Iraq's stability. In hearings before two Senate committees in Washington, Gen. David Petraeus said that the recent flare-up in violence in Basra and Baghdad by so-called "Special Groups" highlighted Tehran's malign influence among fellow Shi'ite armed factions. Unchecked, the Special Groups pose the greatest long-term threat to the viability of a democratic Iraq," he said. "Iran has fueled the violence in a particularly damaging way."
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