Topic: missing iraqi weapons

Every one hears a lot about thousands of missing American weapons in Iraq. Today I came across some images taken by regime's news agency IRNA during last week military exercises by IRGC.

In the first image, two IRGC riflemen are carrying M-16s and in the second photo, another IRGC soldiers is carrying an M-16 plus he is wearing advance combat helmet.

I believe these can be the very same American weapons missing in Iraq and now they ended up with Iran's revolutionary guards through their Iraqi proxies.

According to my sources, these weapons are being produced by Iranian defense industries but the fact is I never saw M-16s with the regular army during my military service and the official Iranian armed forces rifle is German made G-3 which has been in service with Iranian armed services since late 1960s and produced under license from the German manufacturer ever since. Official IRGC and Basij rifle is Russian AK-47 and throughout my military service in the regular army, I never saw any American rifles though. So the question is how did IRGC get these M-16s and American looking helmets? There may be a strong possiblity that these weapons transfered to Iran through regime's proxies in Iraq.

What do you think?