Iran's 'double game' in Afghanistan
Guardian / Massoumeh Torfeh
12-Mar-2010 (2 comments)

It must have felt very uncomfortable for President Hamid Karzai to have his guest and "brother", Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, use a press conference in Kabul to attack Afghanistan's main donor and ally, the United States. "They themselves created terrorists and now they're saying that they are fighting terrorists," said Ahmadinejad, accusing the US of playing a "double game" in Afghanistan.

Ahmadinejad was in fact returning a compliment by the US defence secretary, Robert Gates, who only hours earlier had accused Tehran of "playing a double game" of offering friendship to the Afghan government while at the same time giving "low-level support" and money to the Taliban.

Karzai had always hoped to be the mediator between Iran and America, yet on this occasion, unwittingly, he became the messenger of abuse. He looked distinctly uneasy in the press conference, never knowing what Ahmadinejad may come up with in his next sentence.

"Your country is located on the other side of the world, so what are you doing here?" said Ahmadinejad, criticising the US presence in Afghanistan. Yet he didn't seem to be full of novel ideas for resolving the complex web of problems facing Afghanistan. He suggested empowering "the Afghan government, the legal Afghan government, and the legal government's running of the country and its security issues".

His stress on the word "legal" was not without reason. Like his own second term, Karzai's election was marred by... >>>

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Wow, hezbullahforum

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you have been lurking around my posts today.  It's weirding me out.  Your boss F**ked up again in Afghanistan, and embarrassed his host, and all you can say is to throw a wisecrack at me?  

I was going to ask what your opinion was on this piece of news itself, but then I realized that there was a dog urinating in the street, and that I was more interested in that event than in your opinion. 


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Not Knowing When to Shut Up!

 

Before telling others, that is a great advice for you to follow!

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