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| Afghanistan: Taliban 'receiving arms from Iran' | |
| 2008-09-18 | |
| (AKI) -- Iran's Revolutionary Guards have been arming Taliban groups in western Afghanistan for the past year, an independent journalist has told Adnkronos International (AKI). "The Iranian Revolutionary Guards have regularly been supplying arms to Taliban groups operating in the province of Herat," the journalist, A.B., told AKI from Zahedan, the capital of Beluchistan province in southeastern Iran. "The Revolutionary Guards actually sell the weapons to the Taliban, who apparently pay for them in drugs, not cash," A.B. added. "Besides sub-machine guns that can also fire grenades, the Afghan rebels are also interested in anti-tank mines manufactured in Iran," he said. Iranian officials deny these claims, which have previously been made by the Afghan government and by ISAF, the NATO-led security and development mission in Afghanistan.
An unnamed British military source confirmed that "a limited quantity" of Iranian arms have been sold to the Taliban. There was no evidence that the Iranian government has approved such sales, he said. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 "But that is imposssible Hitler is far right and Stalin is far left." "But that is impossible Saddam is secular and bin Laden an islamist" "But that is impossible Taliban are sunni and Iranian Mullahs shiah" |
| Posted by: JFM 2008-09-18 06:59 |