(Guardian-UK) Ewen MacAskill - Iran abused the neutrality of the Iranian Red Crescent (IRC) society to smuggle intelligence agents and weapons into other countries, including Lebanon during the 2006 war with Israel, according to a well-placed Iranian source who spoke to U.S. diplomats. Among those sent in were members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's al-Quds force, a covert group of intelligence officers and special forces chosen to export the Iranian revolution. The source added: "Shipments of medical supplies served also to facilitate weapons shipments." The source said IRC staff in Iran had seen missiles on a plane destined for Lebanon while delivering medical supplies to the airport. The plane was already half full of weapons before the medical supplies arrived.
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