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BEIRUT, Lebanon, July 20 (UPI) -- Defense Minister Hazem Shaalan accused Iranian intelligence of infiltrating Iraq, threatening to export terrorism to Iraq's neighboring countries.
"The Iranian infiltration is wide and unprecedented since the founding of the Iraqi state," Shaalan said Tuesday in a telephone interview with the Saudi daily al-Sharq al-Awsat, monitored in Beirut.
"The Iranians infiltrated the various departments of the state in general and have set up intelligence and security centers in several Iraqi cities."
He warned Iraq could respond to the terrorist attacks that claimed scores of Iraqi lives by exporting terrorism to the countries supporting and financing terrorism in Iraq.
Shallan said Iraqi authorities have arrested 35 terror suspects in Baghdad recently, including remnants of the ousted Baath regime and Muslim extremists.
Shaalan said Iraq has an estimated 40,000 national guardsmen who are not part of the regular army and who will be in charge of restoring security to the war-torn country with the assistance of U.S.-led multinational forces.
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