Islamic Republic's Proxy War

Iran is waging a proxy war against the Coalition in Iraq and NATO in Afghanistan. Now it has been caught red-handed:

NATO officials say they have caught Iran red-handed, shipping heavy arms, C4 explosives and advanced roadside bombs to the Taliban for use against NATO forces, in what the officials say is a dramatic escalation of Iran's proxy war against the United States and Great Britain.

Glenn Reynolds points out that it will be "a bit harder for the Euros (with billions of dollars invested in Iran) to ignore" this report since the blowers of the whistle are NATO officials. Would the EU continue to fund the mad mullahs in Iran? Richard Clark with impeccable anti-Bush credentials weighs in on this too:

"It is inconceivable that it is anyone other than the Iranian government that's doing it," said former White House counterterrorism official Richard Clarke, an ABC News consultant.

Make no mistake about it, Iran is waging war against the United States and its allies.

The coalition analysis says munitions recovered in two Iranian convoys, on April 11 and May 3, had "clear indications that they originated in Iran. Some were identical to Iranian supplied goods previously discovered in Iraq."The April convoy was tracked from Iran into Helmand province and led a fierce firefight that destroyed one vehicle, according to the official analysis. A second vehicle was reportedly found to contain small arms ammunition, mortar rounds and more than 650 pounds of C4 demolition charges.A second convoy of two vehicles was spotted on May 3 and led to the capture of five occupants and the seizure of RPG-7mm rockets and more than 1,000 pounds of C4, the analysis says. Also among the munitions are components for the lethal EFPs, or explosive formed projectiles, the roadside bombs that U.S. officials say Iran has provided to Iraqi insurgents with deadly results."These clearly have the hallmarks of the Iranian Revolution Guards' Quds force," said Jones.

The coalition diplomatic message says the demolition charges "contained the same fake U.S. markings found on explosives recovered from insurgents operating in the Baghdad area." "We believe these intercepted munitions are part of a much bigger flow of support from Iran to the Taliban," the message says.

The shifting of alliances is so common in geopolitics that there is a cliche to describe it: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." It is in fact astonishing that anybody thinks that jihadis and Iran do not work together (even though they do), or that al Qaeda would not have worked with Iran if circumstances had warranted. Simply in geopolitical terms, removal of Taliban and Saddam triggered expansion of Iran, just like crushing Nazi Germany triggered USSR expansion over the Eastern Europe. I think that there is great chance that Iran's plan for increasing its regional influence and developing "nuclear power" will end very badly for Iran and the Middle East (that is, with millions dead on all sides), with the U.S. having very little to do with it.

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