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Iranian general reportedly running operations in Iraq
15 June 2014 11:35 BST
The head of Iran's elite Quds forces, Major-General Qassem Suleimani, travelled to Iraq last week with 67 top advisers, reports UK weekly The Sunday Times.
According to the paper, a top Iraqi official revealed that the Iranian general is "in charge of arming, deploying forces, weaponry and planning the battles"