AFP reported on Aug. 22 from Washington cited a top US commander Major General Rick Lynch that US forces had captured 117 Iranian-made munitions since April.
“The scale of the Iranian problem is especially troubling when you look at the numbers of weapons we found and destroyed since the start of the surge,’ Lynch told reporters here via video link from Iraq.

“Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps operatives are… stepping up the flow of arms and training to Shiite extremist groups” said the General.
General Lynch said about 20 IRGC members were believed to be operating in his area in central Iraq on southern and eastern outskirts of Baghdad.
’I do believe that at any given time I’ve got up to about 20 Iranians working in our battle space, who are either training Iraqis to conduct acts of violence or to conduct acts of violence themselves,’ he said.
Meanwhile on August 20, Multi-National Division-Baghdad press release indicated U.S. Soldiers discovered a cache consisting of 94 mortar rounds… and four Iranian-made RPGs…