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| British Foreign Secretary Slams Iran Over Taliban Arms Shipment |
| 2011-03-10 |
| British Foreign Secretary William Hague on Wednesday condemned Iran's "completely unacceptable" behavior evidenced in the recent seizure of an Iranian arms shipment intended for the Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan. "This is completely unacceptable. It is not the behavior of a responsible neighbor," Hague said. "It is at odds with Iran's claim to the international community and to its own people that it supports stability and security in Afghanistan." You don't get out in the muslim world much, do you? Hague's angry response came after British Special Forces and Afghan troops seized the shipment after a deadly fire-fight with insurgents in Afghanistan's southern Nimruz Province, located near the Iran and Pakistan borders, on 5 February. "I am extremely concerned by the latest evidence that Iran continues to supply the Taliban with weaponry - weapons clearly intended to provide the Taliban with the capability to kill Afghan and ISAF soldiers from significant range," Hague said. Arm Iran's rebles and see how they like it. "The detailed technical analysis, together with the circumstances of the seizure, leave us in no doubt that the weaponry recovered came from Iran," he stressed, urging " Iran to act in the interests of a stable and secure region." Hague added that the British Ambassador in Tehran had raised the issue of the seized arms shipment with the Iranian Foreign Affairs ministry. Although Hague did not provide further details of the seized Iranian arms shipment, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) officials have indicated that it contained 48 122mm rockets which have a range of about 20 kilometers. They linked the arms shipment to Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards even though the identifying marks on the weapons had been deliberately removed. The US and its allies have often accused Iran of funding and arming Taliban militants as part of its efforts to offset the ongoing NATO-led anti-insurgency mission in Afghanistan and disrupt international efforts aimed at reconstructing and bringing peace to the war-torn country. But Iran denies those allegations |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #2 Good! We've been too quiet about this behavior from Iran for too long. Shout it out loud that we know and secretly begin to arm the hell out of the Iranian opposition groups. |
| Posted by: Snetch B. Hayes3906 2011-03-10 09:58 |
| #1 TALIBAN versus * PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > OBAMA EXTENDS US NATIONAL EMERGENCY REGARDING IRAN [for another year = ends 03/15/2012]. HMMMMM.... |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-03-10 02:13 |