oh ok rrright. Actually, for all the funny muckery attenion getting charades of Iranian mullah regime I gotta hand it to them: BALLZ. Accused in Iraq, Accused in Lebanon and Syria and now in Afghanistan. No weapon sophistry like that of Pakistan, No history of continuous good relations with the US unlike Pakistan, No nukes unlike Pakistan, surrounded by perceived hostiles yet remain untouched, unbombd and even admired. Pathetically funny, sad, on some level perhaps even instructive to us.
Iran gives political and material support to President Hamid Karzai’s Western-backed government, but it also may be aiding the Taliban as a way of hedging its bets in neighboring Afghanistan, NATO’s top general here said Monday.
In an interview with The Associated Press, U.S. Army Gen. Dan McNeill said Taliban fighters are showing signs of better training, using combat techniques comparable to “an advanced Western military” in ambushes of U.S. Special Forces soldiers.
Iran’s possible role in aiding insurgents in Iraq has long been hotly debated, and last month some Western and Persian Gulf governments charged that the Islamic government in Tehran is secretly bolstering Taliban fighters.
“In Afghanistan it is clear that the Taliban is receiving support, including arms from … elements of the Iranian regime,” British Prime Minister Tony Blair wrote in the May 31 edition of the Economist.