WASHINGTON — Iran is no longer actively supplying Iraqi militias with a particularly lethal kind of roadside bomb, a decision that suggests a strategic shift by Iraqi leadership, U.S. and Iraqi authorities said Thursday.
Use of the armor-piercing explosives — known as explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs — has dwindled sharply in recent months, said Army Lt. Gen. Thomas Metz, head of the Pentagon office created to counter roadside bombs in Iran and Afghanistan.
Metz estimated that American forces now find between 12 and 20 of the devices in Iraq each month, down from 60 to 80 earlier this year.
Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said he thinks Iran has concluded that a new security agreement between the U.S. and Iraq poses no threat to Iran. The Associated Press
