BERLIN, Jan 26: The main exiled Iranian opposition group published a list of nearly 32,000 Iraqis who it said were “agents of the mullahs” employed by Iran to destabilise its neighbour.

At a news conference in Berlin, the spokesman of the German chapter of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), Javad Dabiran, also accused the Islamic republic of “sending millions of dollars in cash to Iraq each month” as well as arms.

Dabiran said the agents were employed by the Quds force, which is affiliated with Iran's elite ideological army, the Revolutionary Guards.

He said the NCRI had obtained the list of 31,690 members, which only included people “directly enlisted by the Quds force in Iran”.

The document includes the name of each fighter in Arabic and Farsi, his bank account number and the amount he received in each month in rials, Dabiran said.

“The religious regime has built up a network of terror and murder that is active in all of Baghdad and in the south, north and centre of Iraq,”he said.

The US administration said on Wednesday it had proof of Iran's interference in Iraq, promising soon to publish details of Iranian networks in its strife-torn neighbouring country.

“There is solid evidence that Iranian agents are involved in these networks and that they are working with individuals and groups in Iraq and that they are being sent there by the Iranian government,” said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.—AFP

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