In a press conference on May 14, 2008, Major General Kevin J. Bergner, Spokesman, Multi-National Force – Iraq, said:
We have publicly discussed numerous times and shown numerous times the evidence – on four separate occasions – of what we have found and continue to find: Iranian-made weapons in the hands of criminals in Iraq. We have also discussed what we have…we have also discussed the evidence that we have found that Iraqi militants are being trained in Iran and receiving funding through [the] Iranian Quds Force to conduct violent attacks in Iraq.

With this evidence, the Government of Iraq has recently engaged its neighbor and again sought fulfillment of Iranian commitments previously made to stop the flow of weapons, training, and funding.

For the past year we have been quite candid and very forthcoming in talking about our operations directed against special groups criminals and their source of support which we know comes from Iranian Quds Force which are part of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps. We’ve learned a great deal as a result of the operations we have conducted. It has resulted in the arrest of Qais Kas Ali [and] his brother Laith[ph] Kas Ali who were then the leaders of the special groups criminals and their network across Iraq. It also resulted in the detention of Ali Mousa Dakduk who was a Lebanese Hezbollah operative who was sent here by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps specifically to help serve as a surrogate or a proxy, if you will, for their operations – their support of the special groups. So coalition forces, with Iraqi security forces partners, have been conducting operations against these networks. It has resulted in the detention of Quds Force officers.