The leader of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NICR), Maryam Rajavi, claims two of the Iranian captured by the U.S. military in Iraq in the past week are “senior members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards.”

In Washington, a Pentagon official said Thursday that U.S. forces had found “indications and evidence that all of the people rounded up, including the two Iranians, are involved in the transfer of IED technologies from Iran to Iraq.” IED stands for improvised explosive devices, or small bombs that are commonly used in attacks in Iraq.

A spokesman for Iraqi President Jalal Talabani claims the two men were in Baghdad on his invitation. It doesn’t appear the reporter who filed the story wished to ask if that means Talabani invited two Iranian military officers into Iraq in order to transfer IEDs. A slip of the mind, I suppose.