Fallon: Iran Is Active In Afghanistan, Says U.S. Will “Act Decisively”
Fallon, far left
Today the top U.S. commander for the Middle East accused Iran of supplying roadside bomb components to militants to get American soldiers “out of the region.” and said the U.S. would “act decisively” if the cross-border flow continues.
Adm. William J. Fallon said Iran is providing development assistance in western Afghanistan, which he labeled helpful. But he said Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is also supplying roadside bomb parts for the type of sophisticated and deadly bombs found in Iraq known as “explosively formed penetrators”—accusations the U.S. has made repeatedly in Iraq as well.
“The Iranians are clearly supplying some amount of lethal aid,” Fallon told The Associated Press. “There is no doubt …. that agents from Iran are involved in aiding the insurgency.”
Iran has denied that it is supplying arms to fighters in Afghanistan.
Fallon said Iran is trying to ensure that it has a role in the region’s politics.
“And I think they put a priority on causing us as much frustration as they can,” he said. “I think it’s all aimed at embarrassing us and one of their long-standing aims is getting us out of the region.”
NATO’s International Security Assistance Force has said that three shipments of weapons emanating from Iran have been intercepted in Afghanistan since the spring. The latest was intercepted in the western province of Farah on Sept. 6.
Fallon said the U.S. was carefully watching the flow of weapons from Iran, and that border interdiction efforts may need to be increased.
NATO’s top commander in Afghanistan, U.S. Gen. Dan McNeill, told The Washington Post in a story published Friday that the Sept. 6 shipment likely was sent into the country with the knowledge of Iran’s Republican Guard and possibly the Quds Force, the country’s elite covert military arm.
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Yeah, but we’re denying the small man from the small country of Iran the opportunity to go to ground zero. How could we be so un-UN about it all? (Like the sarcasm?)
We got the goods on these pricks. Right 100 Drop 100 FFE, over. How about a live-fire demo of MRSI?
September 21st, 2007 at 8:43 amCan you say… mis-cal-cul-ation? The Iranians have bought into the same narrative as the Democratic Party, and that is one of a defeat in Iraq and eventually Afghanistan. However, once the Iraqi regime is enjoying relative peace in their country by the end of this year they will no longer feel like they have to hedge their bets with Iran in case the US bails. Once that happens and the gathering evidence of Iran’s double dealings in Iraq and Afghanistan becomes overwhelming, the rhetoric about not allowing attacks to be launched on Iran from Iraqi soil will change to one of “that’s what you get for killing our American brothers and our citizens and troops.”
The American people are not going to walk away from a victory when it becomes clearly evident in the next few months that a US victory in Iraq is inevitable! The democrats will suffer the consequences in the next election as most Americans get behind The Great General Petraeus.
It is clear we have been quietly building our case to take down the very weak Iranian regime. We all have seen the reports about air strikes being planned, special ops troops inside Iran, etc.
There is a storm building that will surgically remove the Iranian regime and install a new democratic one with a very small number of US and Iraqi troops using all the lesions we learned from our fuck ups in Iraq.
Or as our momentum building and overwhelming success in Iraq becomes obvious, the Iranians might suddenly become very receptive and eager to engage the US in a real and authentic diplomatic dialogue as the North Koreans did.
Either way the Iranians are going to get their asses in line. Obviously I would rather see the Iranians at the negotiating table with their tails between their legs rather than us having to make them change by force.
Either way, victory is assured and this shit is going to end. The Iranian leadership can either choose peace, die, or be put on trail like Saddam was. Their choice.
September 21st, 2007 at 9:30 amwhen are we going to wise up and bomb their asses back to the stone age?
September 21st, 2007 at 11:16 amWhen are we going to say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH with these Fucking Bastards?
September 21st, 2007 at 12:16 pmI hope “decisive action” means “bomb the fuck out of them”.
Come on. Stop the fucking doublespeak and say EXACTLY what we’re going to do to these bastards if they don’t stop. Tell them they have xx amount of time to cease and desist or face obliteration. Period.
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