“Because the smuggling of weapons has increased dramatically in the last few months,” Sattar al-Ardawi, a member of the local security committee and the head of Tribal affairs, explained. But he added, a few days ago security services arrested a number of suspected arms dealers in Karbala.
Additionally Al-Ardawi says he cannot rule out the possibility that there are international agents behind some of the weapons smuggling.
In the recent past, observers have suggested that Syria has become the latest frontier in the Shiite Muslim and Sunni Muslim conflict, with accusations that the governments of some Gulf states, mostly Sunni Muslim, are secretly arming the Syrians fighting against regime of Bashar al-Assad, a member of a Shiite Muslim sect.
Meanwhile the government in Iran, a mostly Shiite Muslim led theocracy, is certainly supporting the al-Assad regime diplomatically. Recent calls by international governments asking Iraq to shut down an international air corridor that Iran is allegedly using to fly weapons to supply the Syrian military, suggests that Iran is also supporting the al-Assad regime in a more practical way.
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