Western intelligence officials have proof that Syria has been receiving large quantities of arms from Iran, flown in on private aircraft transiting Iraqi airspace according to a report the Reuters news agency claims to have seen. Military advisers are also being sent to Syria to support the regime of President Bashar Al-Assad. The intel report disputes Iraqi denials regarding Iranian use of its airspace. According to Reuters, the report – obtained from a United Nations source – states that the flights are almost daily and carry Revolutionary Guard personnel and “tens of tons” of weapons. The Iranian trans-Iraqi flights have long been suspected and talked about, but the report provides a factual basis that governments, including the US, will have to deal with head-on. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, has threatened to call for a cut-off of aid to Iraq if it is shown to be facilitating the transfer of arms to Assad. On Thursday, Iraq’s deputy interior minister for intelligence denied the report, saying, “There is nothing like this happening.” Meanwhile, the Iranian foreign minister met in Damascus with Syrian President Assad on Thursday and seemingly issued a rejection of Egyptian President Morsy’s overture to Iran to drop its support of Assad in return for building its relations with other Arab nations. Foreign Minister Ali Akhbar Salehi said the solution to the 19-months of carnage lies “only in Syria and within the Syrian family.”