NY Post: "Iran Doing a 'Brisk Business' in Terror"

"Axis of Evil" is an apt characterization.

Iran is using an increasingly vast network of fake import-export companies to funnel weapons and money to terrorist groups in Iraq, The Post has learned.

U.S. intelligence officials and other Iraq experts revealed yesterday that the recent arrests of two Iranian operatives and the seizure of documents in raids have exposed the fact that Iran and its proxy group Hezbollah have put together an extensive infrastructure to train, support and finance Shiite militias and even some Sunni insurgent groups in Iraq.

The Iranian network inside Iraq is so extensive that the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards - the shock troops of the ayatollahs - operates 82 phony import-export businesses in Sunni-dominated Anbar Province, according to Michael Rubin, a former official with the Pentagon and Coalition Provisional Authority.

"It's a classic money-laundering operation," said Rubin, now with the American Enterprise Institute, who said he got the information from tribal leaders with ties to the insurgents.

Rubin said he was told that TVs and other products cross the border from Iran and are picked up by the phony export companies, which resell them and give the profits to the insurgents to fund their bloody attacks against U.S. forces.

(Hat Tip: Daily Alert)

Tags: Iran, Quds Force, Hizbullah, Iraq, terror