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| Special Report: Iran
Supports Iraq Terror By Claude Salhani, Editor, Middle East Times Secret details of the production of a new type of explosively formed penetrator, or EFP in military jargon, is being produced by Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Qods Force (IRGC-QF), according to sources in the Iranian resistance. The information was revealed at a Parliamentary press conference
held in London Tuesday by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a group opposed to
the rule of the mullahs. "Based on the information obtained by the network of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran [PMOI also known as MeK, Mujahedin-e-Khalq], the Qods Force is responsible for providing more than 80 percent of the arms, ammunition and bombs being used across Iraq," said Hossein Abedini, member of the NCRI's Foreign Affairs Committee. Production and Testing of the New Models of EFPs Parchin "Sector Five" of the Parchin Industry is where
new deadlier models of EFPs are manufactured southeast of Tehran. Several teams are engaged in this center in the development
of advanced EFPs. Engineer Shahriar Moqadam, an expert on materials and
metallurgy, works on armor-piercing projects in Sayyad Shirazi Industries, which is a
series of factories of arms production industries. Tests on newer models of EFPs are carried out at Tir Square
in Hesar-e Amir in the Parchin industry unit. This area which is located in the vicinity
of Parchin is specifically set up for the testing of new weaponry, including EFPs. The
work undertaken there is considered top secret. Currently the Qods Force uses parties and groups with ties
to the IRGC as well as local smugglers in the border regions to smuggle bomb packages,
rockets and other weaponry via the border posts in the provinces of Khuzestan, Ilam,
Kermanshah and Kurdistan. The PMOI has uncovered 51 major weapons smuggling networks
operating between Iran and Iraq. |