Blinded by the Money

I was reading this story and just felt flabbergasted at this comment.

This has made him apprehensive. "We must ask the United States to provide proof to back up their accusations against Iran," he says. Guttenberg hasn't forgotten how claims that former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's possessed weapons of mass
destruction were used to justify the invasion of Iraq. Until now, says Guttenberg, the notion that Tehran is smuggling weapons to Afghanistan and that Iranian al Quds brigades are operating inside Iraq is little more than a rumor. "But it's important," he says, "that the Americans provide us with solid evidence

NY Times knows that Iran is in Iraq and so does the Guardian, so why does the government of Germany know this? As for Iranian made arms in Afghanistan well:

WASHINGTON, April 17 — A shipment of Iranian-made weapons bound for the Taliban was recently captured by allied forces in Afghanistan, the Pentagon’s top officer said Tuesday.

But I imagine one can overlook such things when Germany is exporting over 5 billion dollars worth of goods to Iran.