During a press conference, General David Petraeus, Multi National Force Commander of Iraq and Ryan Crocker, the US ambassador to Iraq asserted that the Iranian regime supports militias in Iraq and destabilizes that country.

General Prtraeus said: there was hard evidence of Iranian involvement in attacks on US soldiers but demurred on whether US forces should respond with operations inside Iran.

General Petraeus added: The evidence included captured hard drives that contained digitized items taken from the wallet of a US soldier killed in an assault in January in Karbala along with four other US soldiers.
“The evidence is very, very clear; we captured it when we captured Qais Khazali, the Lebanese Hezbollah deputy commander and others. And it’s in black and white.”
AFP that reported his remarks stated: Khazali is alleged to be an Iraqi member of the Iranian backed cell that stormed a security station in Karbala January 20, killing a visiting US soldier and kidnapping four others, who were later found dead.
The US military in July announced the capture in Basra of a senior Hezbollah militant, Ali Musa Daqduq, who it accused of training “special groups” of Shiite militants at camps near Tehran under the auspices of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Quds Force.
Petraeus said video-taped interrogations of the captured operatives have been shown to senior Iraqis, some of whom then confronted the Iranians with the evidence.
“Qais Khazali, himself, when asked, ’Could you have done what you have done without Iranian support?’ he literally throws up his hands and laughs and says, ’Of course not.’”
“So they told us about the amounts of money that they have received. They told us about the training that they received. They told us about the ammunition and sophisticated weaponry and all of that that they received,” he said.
“And so, this is evidentiary. It is not just intelligence. It rises to the level of evidence, particularly what we captured when we got the hard drives of the computers from the individuals that we picked up in Basra,” he said.

Confirming General Peraeus’s remarks, Ryan Crocker, US ambassador to Baghdad, pointed out to the Iranian regime’s destructive role in Iraq and asked this regime’s support of militias and terrorist to be halted.