According to Associated Press, Robert Gates, US Defense Secretary, warned that IED bombs belonging to the Iranian regime have increased recently.

“During the first half of January there were as many IEDs (improvised explosive devices) as there were in all of December,” Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters aboard a plane after a visit in Charleston.

Gates’ military adviser, Peter Chiarelli, said later the secretary was actually referring to explosively formed penetrators (EFPs), which US officials say Iran has been supplying to insurgents in Iraq.