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Iran supports insurgent groups in Afghanistan: Khalilzad |
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Written by NotOverYet
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Sunday, 25 November 2007 |
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Wed Nov 21, 2007 8:02 pm (PST)
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 16,
(Pajhwok Afghan News)
The United States Ambassador to the UN, Zalmay Khalilzad, charged
Thursday that Iran is helping the insurgent groups in Afghanistan and
Iraq.
And since Iran is seeking regional hegemony and has ties with
terrorists organizations, it is time for the international community
to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons; he told the media at
the UN soon after the IAEA released its report on Iran.
Because Iran is seeking regional hegemony, because Iran has ties with
terrorists organizations, because Iran supports insurgent groups in
Iraq and in Afghanistan, because of rhetoric of the Iranian leaders
given all that it is a defining issue and therefore the international
community as a whole has a stake in doing all that we can
diplomatically to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons
capability, Khalilzad said.
For the past several months, the US has been charging Iran of helping
the terrorists organizations in Afghanistan with arms and ammunition.
Its officials have even produced alleged Iranian built weapons in
Afghanistan captured from the militants. However, the Afghanistan
Government has always insisted that there has not been any such
concrete evidence, though there have been some reports in this regard
and it is watchful on this issue.
Khalilzad said after the IAEA report it has become clear that Iran is
going ahead with its nuclear program. As a result the US believes
that there is need to move forward with another resolution in the
Security Council under Chapter 7, to impose additional sanctions on
Iran, he said. |
