Iran's hidden hand is everywhere. One UN official recounts how, after visiting a province near the Iranian border, she was surprised to be told that General Qassim Suleimani, the shadowy commander of the Quds Force, or foreign legion of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, had been there at the same time. “The Americans are more powerful,” says Hashim al-Hashemi, an Iraqi security analyst in Baghdad, “but the Iranians are more dangerous. They have penetrated every organ of state.”
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