Predictably, millions of American, thanks to the Fox News Effect, are unable to this day to tell the two apart.
Not only is Iran supplying IEDs to the “insurgents” in Iraq, but if we are to believe the neocons they are also supplying so-called roadside bombs to the Taliban in Afghanistan. “A top American commander on Friday accused Iran of supplying powerful roadside bombs to militants in Afghanistan and said the U.S. would ‘act decisively’ if the cross-border flow continues,” reports News for Yahoos. “Adm. William Fallon, the head of U.S. Central Command, said Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is supplying roadside bomb parts for the type of sophisticated and deadly bombs found in Iraq known as explosively formed penetrators.”
Of course, this makes absolutely no sense, as Iran and Afghan installed president and former Unocal employee Hamid Karzai established a bilateral trade relationship in 2005. Mohammad Khatami traveled to Prague in early 2005 with “a high-level delegation” that included “ministers of the interior, finance, and economy, as well as the minister for refugees,” Golnaz Esfandiari reported for Radio Free Europe. “The Iranian Embassy in Kabul said Karzai and Khatami would also open a newly completed power transmission line running from Torbat-e Jam in northeastern Iran to Herat, as well as eight border stations constructed by Iran in Afghanistan’s Herat, Nimruz, and Farah provinces.” Now we are expected to believe the Iranians want to sabotage this relationship by providing IEDs to the Taliban, not only staunch enemies of Karzai but Iran as well.
Does not compute. But then so much about the flaccid and utterly absurd neocon propaganda campaign against Iran does not compute, that is unless you buy into the up-is-down, black-is-white worldview of the Bushzarrians.
“Fallon said the U.S. was carefully watching the flow of weapons from Iran and said the U.S. would ‘act decisively’ if the cross-border flow continues,” News for Fans of Glass Parking Lots continues. “His comments were not meant as a threat of military action against Iran but a suggestion that border interdiction efforts may need to be increased, Fallon’s aides said later.”