Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Nicholas Burns: "Iran is Funding insurrection across the Middle East"

Finally, indisputable evidenc that Iran is arming the Taliban:

(CBS/AP) The United States
has "irrefutable" evidence that Iran is transferring weapons to the Taliban in Afghanistan, with the knowledge of the Iranian government, and NATO has intercepted some of the shipments, a senior U.S. diplomat said Wednesday. "There's irrefutable evidence the Iranians are now doing this," said Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns on CNN.

"It's certainly coming from the government of Iran. It's coming from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard corps command, which is a basic unit of the Iranian government." Speaking separately to The Associated Press, Burns also said that NATO needs to act to stop the shipments. The Iran-Afghanistan frontier is "a very long border. But the Iranians need to know that we are there and that we're going to oppose this." "It's a very serious question," he said, adding that Iran is in "outright violation" of relevant U.N. Security Council resolutions. Burns' claims of evidence Tuesday came after he first accused Iran of supplying the Taliban the day before.


Speaking to reporters in Paris, he said Iran was funding insurrections across the Middle East. "It's a country that's trying to flex its muscles, but in a way that's injurious to the interests of just about everybody else in the world," he said. "I think it's a major miscalculation." Burns also criticized Iran's perceived intransigence over its nuclear program, which many Western powers fear masks a plan to build weapons, though Iran says its intentions are to generate energy...



This is further proof that we're losing the war on terror to Iran and the Islamic Republic has taken a page out of Mr. Bush's foreign policy book and they are fighting us in everywhere in the Middle East so the Iranians don't have to fight them at home in Iran. Roxie explains:

Scott McClellan summed up the Bush Administration’s plan for the War on Terror on June 27, 2005, saying, “That's why we're fighting them in Iraq, and we're not fighting them here at home. We're fighting them in Iraq so that we can defeat them abroad, so we don't have to fight them here at home.” Iranian leaders adopted the Bush Administration strategy and began fighting the United State of America in Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine and Afghanistan, so that the Iranians would not have fight the United States at home in Iran.Hamas is supported by Iran, and is currently fighting in the streets of Palestine against the US supported government.

Hezbollah is supported by Iran and kicked the Israeli army’s butt in the recent Israeli-Hezbollah War. Iran is supplying arms to the Taliban in Afghanistan and to groups fighting the United States in Iraq. The result is clear: the Islamic Republic of Iran has not had to fight the United States at home in Iran.The United States is losing the War on Terror to Iran, the largest sponsor of terrorism in the world. Iran has a long history of arming, training and funding terrorist groups in multiple nations around the world. The Bush administration’s decision to invade Iraq, a nation that did not sponsor world-wide terrorism, and not to invade Iran, a nation that has a long history of sponsoring terrorism, was the greatest foreign policy blunder in the history of the United States of America. It has not only given Islamic terrorists a victory in the War on Terror but also created instability throughout the Middle East.

1 comment:

programmer craig said...

Don't worry, Serendip. The US has played this game before, against a more formidable enemy. I don't think Iran is copying the Bush administration, because the US is not fighting by proxy in Iraq and Afghanistan. I think Iran is following the model that their friends the Russians used in Latin America throughout the Cold War. The USSR lost that game. And Iran is not the USSR.

I expect this is going to backfire pretty badly on Iran. The USSR was always safe from direct retaliation. This is not the position that Iran is in. So, the US has two options. Wage proxy war against Iran, or wage real war against Iran.

Neither option is good for Iran. And that's why I think this is a foolish game.