Like Perry Mason used to say, “Case closed Della, get the car!”

Beside all the usual denial of the left (laughable as it is), the facts are in and it’s without question that Iran has been assisting the insurgents in attacks against US troops.

“After weeks of internal debate, senior United States military officials on Sunday literally put on the table their first public evidence of the contentious assertion that Iran supplies Shiite extremist groups in Iraq with some of the most lethal weapons in the war. They said those weapons had been used to kill more than 170 Americans in the past three years.

Never before displayed in public, the weapons included squat canisters designed to explode and spit out molten balls of copper that cut through armor. The canisters, called explosively formed penetrators or E.F.P.’s, are perhaps the most feared weapon faced by American and Iraqi troops here.

In a news briefing held under strict security, the officials spread out on two small tables an E.F.P. and an array of mortar shells and rocket-propelled grenades with visible serial numbers that the officials said link the weapons directly to Iranian arms factories. The officials also asserted, without providing direct evidence, that Iranian leaders had authorized smuggling those weapons into Iraq for use against the Americans. The officials said such an assertion was an inference based on general intelligence assessments.

That inference, and the anonymity of the officials who made it, seemed likely to generate skepticism among those suspicious that the Bush administration is trying to find a scapegoat for its problems in Iraq, and perhaps even trying to lay the groundwork for war with Iran.”

The only “skeptics” are the usual friends of Iran, which are usual groups of Israel haters and lovers of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who they rather believe than their own country.

Nevertheless the evidence is compelling and just simple interview (with pre submitted questions) is worth squat just as Ahmadinejad’s word is worth squat.

Bill Gertz writes more on the specifics:

” The report stated that the Iranians involved in supporting Iraqi extremists are members of the Qods Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, Tehran’s Islamist paramilitary shock troops. The Qods Force is known to back terrorists throughout the Middle East, according to the 16-page report.

A senior defense official said the Iranian terrorist support is “coming from the highest levels of the Iranian government.”

Much of the intelligence in the report was obtained in the past several months, including an identity card of a Qods Force member who was captured along with four other Iranian agents in a raid on the group’s office in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil last month. The identity card bore the logo of the Qods Force.

“Over the last 60 days, Iranian and Iraqi detainees have told us that the Qods Force provides support to extremist groups in the form of money and weapons,” the report said. “Their information included references to Iranian provision of weapons to Iraqi militants engaged in anti-coalition violence, as well as weapons and training to these same militants.”

This folks is the “smoking gun”, for the QF doesn’t move without specific orders from the top of the Iranian government, which is why Dog Face is ducking the question. Again as I’ve been saying here and on the MacRanger Show, we needed evidence that does exactly what this evidence does - tie it to the top.

I asked a senior level IC friend on this no holds bared, and the answer? The evidence is unimpeachable.