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The Ties to Tehran<br />

Agents from Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps<br />

infiltrated several Iraqi cities (yellow) to collect Information on U.S.-led forces and work with insurgent<br />

groups after the ouster of Saddam Hussein. Other Iranian agents crossed the long, porous, border with<br />

Iraq, intelligence reports said, to support t~e Mahdi Army and the Badr Organization.<br />

[MAP LABELS]<br />

IRAQ<br />

IRAN<br />

Tehran<br />

Iraq-Iran border crossings<br />

Hajj Umran<br />

Baneh<br />

Halabjah<br />

As Sulaymaniyah<br />

Khanaqln<br />

Mehran and Baramadad<br />

Chamsarl<br />

Hoveyzeh<br />

Darsiyah<br />

Shalamchah<br />

Khorramshahr<br />

Abadan<br />

Active Iranian intelligence cells<br />

Mosul<br />

Klrkuk<br />

Baghdad<br />

Karbala<br />

Kut<br />

Najaf<br />

Amarah<br />

Basra<br />

[LABELS-GLOBE INSET]<br />

IRAQ<br />

IRAN<br />

Area of detail<br />

Sources: U.S. intelligence and State.Department reports; United Nations<br />

Rob Cady--USN&WR<br />

AN UNHOLY ALUANCE<br />

BADR ORGANIZATION. This group served as the armed wing of a Shiite political party in Iraq known as<br />

the Supreme Council for IslalJlic Revolution. Members of the Badr group opposed Saddam Hussein's rule,<br />

and fled to Iran In the early 1980s. A British intelligence report says that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary<br />

Guard Corps "funded, trained, and armed the group, as well as assigning IRGC personnel in a support<br />

file:IIC:\DOCUME-l\agQJ!1~m\LO~ALS-!\Te~p\CI96ZFQ;F.htm 11116/2004

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