"BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, said Iran continues to support Iraqi insurgents and Syria is allowing foreign fighters passage into Iraq.
In January, Petraeus said attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq with bombs believed linked to Iran -- known as explosively formed penetrators (EFPs) -- had risen sharply after several months of decline. But that came after several months of decline in Iranian involvement.
The Bush administration and the military have long maintained that Iranian agents, particularly the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, have been arming and training Iraqi insurgents.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited Iraq earlier this month and pledged to help Iraq with energy supplies, while denouncing U.S. statements about Iranian involvement with Iraqi insurgents.
Differences with the Bush administration over Iran were reported to be behind the resignation of Petraeus' boss, Adm. William Fallon, earlier this month, but Petraeus on Wednesday said he and Fallon have been seeing eye-to-eye on Iraq in recent months."
This article shows the United States continuing distrust towards Iran. Even though Iran denounces claims that the country is "meddling" in Iraq, the United States continues to maintain that its claims about Iran's intervention are true.
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