US uses Iraq consulate to smuggle arms to anti-Iran terrorist cell

The cargo, including light and heavy guns, was shipped into Iraq's southern city of Basra through the Turkish soil, according to an informed security source, who asked not to be identified.

The US mission in the city used its diplomatic immunity to take the shipment into the consulate's building without bothering to answer to Iraqi security officials.

The United States is said to have organized an Arab group inside the consulate to facilitate the trafficking of arms to be used against Iran.

The arms are expected to end up in the hands of the Khalq-e Arab terrorist group, operating in the country's southwestern province of Khuzestan.