1938 Alert from Iran Focus, with thanks to JE:
London, Jul. 05 — Iran has sent heavily-armed agents into Iraq who have set up base near the central Iraqi province of Diyala, an Iraqi daily reported….
The report quoted an Iraqi intelligence official as saying that the agents had received logistical support from armed Iraqi militias and were in an area between al-Reshad, west of Baghdad, to Khan Bani-Sad, close to Diyala.