David Ignatius gets sloppy on Iran, parrots propaganda as fact

David Ignatius of the Washington Post is mindlessly asserting as fact the US military's unproven allegation that Iran armed Moqtada al-Sadr's army with missiles:

The Iranians had supplied their Mahdi Army allies in Sadr City with very powerful 240mm rockets and mortars, and they had bracketed their targets in the Green Zone so precisely that U.S. casualties were rising sharply.

Are these the same 240mm rockets that Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner was not willing to actually talk about?

A plan to show some alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to journalists last week in Karbala and then destroy them was canceled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran. A U.S. military spokesman attributed the confusion to a misunderstanding that emerged after an Iraqi Army general in Karbala erroneously reported the items were of Iranian origin.

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There you go again.I do not know where this guy,David Ignatius, get his facts from. He seems to know everything about Iran's revolutionary guards and his commanders better than Iranians, from his Washington desk. Surely his "unidentified" sources, (read experts of disinformation, lies, and fabrication), could provide him with all the news fit to print at any moment.

[Mark Pyruz]

A Fajr-3 is unmistakable. It's large, roughly three times longer than an average man. No the stockpile referred to in the LA Times blog didn't contain any Fajr's. Most of the alleged Iranian manufactured rockets are 107 mm (Haseb) and 122 mm (Arash) types.