(Guardian-UK) Security officials in Baghdad Thursday were investigating the background of 30 Iranians caught fighting for a rebel Shia cleric in Iraq, amid mounting concern over the involvement of the Tehran regime in the uprising. Two trucks laden with weapons destined for al-Sadr were stopped at the Iranian border on Wednesday. Sabbah Kaddim, a senior adviser at Iraq's ministry of the interior, said, "There has been a continuous stream of vehicles over the last few weeks trying to ferry arms across the border from Iran."
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