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Tue, 04/06/2010 - 13:49
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Iran rejects US official's claim as baseless
Kabul, April 6, IRNA – Iran's Embassy in Kabul here Monday strongly rejected as baseless US Chief of Staff Michael Mullen’s claim that Tehran is providing weapons for Taliban group in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
The above statement was made in a communiqué issued by the Media Center of the Iranian Embassy in Kabul. Such accusations are often repeated and are in fact a type of seeking scape goats by some countries to justify their humiliating defeats, and as “a means for cheating world public opinion,” it added.
The communiqué further urged the US administration to seek more logical ways for launching a real campaign against terrorism, instead of accusing other nations baselessly.
“Tehran has always supported the Afghan nation and Central Government and will always continue to do so, since Iran is the only country in the region that believes the existence of an advanced and stable Afghanistan in its neighborhood is to the benefit of the entire world Muslims.”
Last Wednesday, Mullen claimed in Kabul that he had received news that various types of weapons were being sent for Taliban from Iran. He made the remarks when he was on the verge of launching an operation by US forces in Afghanistan’s uneasy province of Kandahar.
He made such claims under such conditions that the people of Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province are presently seriously opposed to the idea of launching any new US military operation in the region.
Both the Iranian and the Afghan officials have on various occasions seriously rejected the baseless claims on forwarding of weapons for the opposition groups of the Central Afghan Government, jointly declaring that despite such claims there has never been any authentic proof on presence of any Iranian made weapons in Afghanistan.
Iran and Afghanistan being located in the same geographical region have lots of shared cultural, historic, racial, and religious commonalties.
The two countries have some 950 kilometers of shared borders that is referred to in the region as the friendship border.
Iran-Afghanistan political relations are at excellent level and the people of the two countries have been witnesses to the visits of President Ahamdinejad and President Karzai to Kabul and Tehran respectively during the past month./end
The above statement was made in a communiqué issued by the Media Center of the Iranian Embassy in Kabul. Such accusations are often repeated and are in fact a type of seeking scape goats by some countries to justify their humiliating defeats, and as “a means for cheating world public opinion,” it added.
The communiqué further urged the US administration to seek more logical ways for launching a real campaign against terrorism, instead of accusing other nations baselessly.
“Tehran has always supported the Afghan nation and Central Government and will always continue to do so, since Iran is the only country in the region that believes the existence of an advanced and stable Afghanistan in its neighborhood is to the benefit of the entire world Muslims.”
Last Wednesday, Mullen claimed in Kabul that he had received news that various types of weapons were being sent for Taliban from Iran. He made the remarks when he was on the verge of launching an operation by US forces in Afghanistan’s uneasy province of Kandahar.
He made such claims under such conditions that the people of Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province are presently seriously opposed to the idea of launching any new US military operation in the region.
Both the Iranian and the Afghan officials have on various occasions seriously rejected the baseless claims on forwarding of weapons for the opposition groups of the Central Afghan Government, jointly declaring that despite such claims there has never been any authentic proof on presence of any Iranian made weapons in Afghanistan.
Iran and Afghanistan being located in the same geographical region have lots of shared cultural, historic, racial, and religious commonalties.
The two countries have some 950 kilometers of shared borders that is referred to in the region as the friendship border.
Iran-Afghanistan political relations are at excellent level and the people of the two countries have been witnesses to the visits of President Ahamdinejad and President Karzai to Kabul and Tehran respectively during the past month./end
