Courtesy of Debkafile:

Kurdish sources report five helicopters carried US forces to pre-dawn raid of Iranian consulate in N. Iraqi town of Irbil …Tehran has strongly protested this breach of its sovereign territory and summoned the Swiss ambassador who represents US interests in Iran and the Iraqi ambassador to demand the immediate release of the Iranian diplomats.

This is, most likely, one result of the late December apprehension of Iranian “Diplomats” in Iraq, and the treasure trove of intel gained from that operation.  One can make the assumption that we now have details on what exactly the Iranians have been up to, and we are shutting their operations down…

The same piece notes:

Later Thursday, Jan. 11, Tehran reported three large explosions shaking the southern town of Khorramshahr north of the oil port of Abadan on the Shatt al-Arb waterway… Khorramshahr, which faces the Iraqi town of Basra, is one of the key towns from which Iran delivers smuggled fighters, weapons and explosives to its Shiite supporters in Iraq.  Our sources also report that some hours before President George W. Bush’s policy speech, a series of explosions were heard in Iranian Balochistan. Tehran imposed a blackout on the incident.

Balochistan is a region at the conjunction of Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Presumably, the Iranians could be using that are to support the Taliban and other Jihadis fighting to overturn the governments it neighbors.

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