Iran seeking to keep Afghanistan unstable: U.S. official.

This is from terra.net.lb. The U.S. which is occupying both Afghanistan and Iraq never seems to see the irony when it complains about Iranian interference in Iraq and Afghanistan. Unfortunately, for the U.S. the Iranians have good relationships with both the Maliki govt. in Iraq and the Karzai govt. in Afghanistan. The real purpose of all these reports about Iran in the U.S. media is to soften the U.S. public for a possible attack on Iran.


Iran seeking to keep Afghanistan unstable: US official


Iran is seeking to keep Afghanistan weak and unstable, delivering arms to the Taliban whilst ostensibly supporting Kabul's government, a senior US state department official said in Paris Tuesday.
"They (Iran) interfere in a variety of different ways, perhaps not as violently as they do sometimes in Iraq," Richard Boucher, assistant secretary of state for south and central Asia, told reporters at a press conference.
"But what we see is Iranian interference politically, Iranian interference in terms of the money that they channel into the political process, Iranian interference in terms of playing off local officials against central government, trying to undermine the state in that way