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Iran denies arming the Taleban !
Iran’s President has rejected accusations that elements of his Government have supplied weapons to Taleban insurgents to destabilise international efforts to rebuild Afghanistan.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on his first visit to Afghanistan since he took office, refuted the British and American claims. “I doubt seriously if there is any truth in it,” he told a press conference held with President Karzai of Afghanistan in Kabul. “With all our force, we support the political process in Afghanistan. For us, a secure and stable Afghanistan is the best.” The claims have opened up a split between President Bush and Mr Karzai. During a meeting at Camp David last week Mr Karzai called Iran “a helper and a solution” to problems in Afghanistan, claiming that it was a vital ally in the fight against terrorism and drugs. Mr Bush said that he “would be very cautious about whether or not the Iranian influence there in Afghanistan is a positive force.”
Despite Mr Karzai’s claims that Mr Ahmadinejad’s Government is supporting reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan, intelligence sources in the country indicate that it is also helping to undermine Nato and American efforts.
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Colonel Rahmatullah Safi, head of border police for western Afghanistan, which borders Iran, said this month: “I have to tell the truth. It is clear to everyone that Iran is supporting the enemy of Afghanistan, the Taleban.” Afghan and international intelligence sources believe that most weaponry is filtered through a drug smuggler in the south-western province of Nimroz. The middle man is from the minority Baluch tribe and is thought to have bought weapons off the Iranian Government and sold them on to the Taleban. The most deadly weapons that have been smuggled into Afghanistan across the porous border with Iran are Iranian-made armour-piercing explosives. The bombs have been used to deadly effect in Iraq and have recently been discovered in western Afghanistan. Colonel Thomas Kelly, an American under the command of Nato, stopped short of blaming the Iranian Government, but said: “These are very sophisticated IEDs and they are really not manufactured in any other place to our knowledge than Iran.” The US Government has accused Iran’s Quds force, an arm of the Revolutionary Guard, of arming and training Shia extremist groups in Iraq. The fear now is that Iran, a Shia country, has overcome its theological difference with the Sunni Taleban to fight a larger enemy.
“The Taleban are Sunni extremists and the Iranians definitely don’t want them to take control of Afghanistan again, but right now they support them as there is a bigger enemy, America. The enemy of my enemy is my friend,” said Haji Rafiq Shahir, a law professor at Herat University.

see this : 100 Iran-made bombs seized, claim Afghan officials
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Aug 14 (Pajhwok Afghan News): Balkh intelligence officials have claimed seizing a hundred Iranian-made improvised explosive devices (IED) in the Hairatan border town on the eve of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejads maiden visit to Kabul. An intelligence official, who did not want to be named, confided to Pajhwok Afghan News on Tuesday they recovered the bombs recently smuggled into the northern province for disruptive activities. The YM-type landmines - manufactured in 1997 by the neighbouring country - were to be used for blowing up gas and oil installations in the region, claimed the intelligence official, who offered no concrete proof in support of his assertion. Initial investigations indicated the explosive devices were smuggled into Afghanistan from Uzbekistan by loyalists of warlord Tahir Yoldashev, said the source, who alleged the dreaded militant leader was fighting alongside al-Qaeda terrorists in Pakistan's lawless tribal areas. Intelligence personnel are combing certain locations to track down the smugglers, according to the official, familiar with the seizure and the ongoing probe. He declined to give more details, arguing such information could hurt the manhunt and the investigation. A senior official based in Hairatan, Qazi Najibullah, confirmed the sleuths recovered the bombs in his presence last evening. The official, who would not reveal more details for security reasons, added the explosives had been shifted to Mazar-i-Sharif. Less than two weeks back, 16 Iranian-made landmines were found from a hideout in the mountainous district of Ghorian in the western Herat province that borders with Iran. On June 2, officials said five anti-tank mines - with all the Iranian hallmarks - were seized from a cave in the same district. In mid-June, a top-ranking Bush administration official, in a departure from his previous stand, hinted the Iranian government was aware of large-scale weapons shipments to Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he had seen a new intelligence analysis that broadly suggested 'a fairly substantial flow of illegal weapons' from Iran to Taliban. The arms were being shipped with the knowledge of the Iranian government, he presumed. "Given the quantities that were seeing, it is difficult to believe that it's associated with smuggling or the drug business or that it's taking place without the knowledge of the Iranian government," remarked Gates. But Afghan leader Hamid Karzai, who met the Iranian president in Kabul today, tends to dispel the impression that Iran is arming his foes or trying to create instability in his country. Earlier in the month, he disagreed on the issue with President Bush during media appearance at Camp David.