Iran covertly fires back?

I didn't see this yesterday, but one of the bombings in Iraq yesterday specifically targeted the MEK, the anti-Iranian terror organization allegedly being used by the US in cross border operations in Iran attempting to destabilize Ahmadinejad's government. (1 2)

The attacks began just after dawn, with one roadside bomb killing 10 people and injuring another 12 who worked for an Iranian organization opposed to the Tehran regime, police said.

That bombing targeted a public bus near Khalis, 50 miles north of Baghdad in Diyala province, an area notorious for such attacks, provincial police said.

All the dead were workers at the Ashraf base of the Mujahedeen Khalq, or MEK. The group, made up of Iranian dissidents living in Iraq, said the dead were Iraqi workers heading to their camp.

It looks like the Iranians, directly or through their Iraqi Shia influenced organizations, have decided that it is time to take a more active role in countering US covert activities. This is a pretty big deal in the state of play of both the Iraq conflict and the broader US/Iran issues.

The US has been employing the MEK going east across the border to Iran, without significant impact on the government thus far. Perhaps this is a warning shot back to the west across the border showing that the Iranians can have a greater impact on the stability of Iraq. I don't know, but it bears watching.

(Laura Rozen points out, "But it doesn't sound like the MEK is confined to Camp Ashraf anymore, does it?")

(This is also interesting as it comes two days after an agreement between Iran and Iraq to close their border.)