Iran is not happy that US forces are going to treat Iranian advisors to Iraq insurgent groups as the legitimate military forces. Alaoddin Boroujerdi, head of Iran’s National Security Commission says "Such moves are deemed as terrorist measures and are in blatant contradiction to the international rules and regulations". Kind of ironic coming from a government born out of embassy seizure with hostages.
From the beginning, Iran actively supports local anti-US actions in both Iraq and Afghanistan. The western press obsessively focuses on violence with virtually no coverage of the economic efforts necessary for stability in both countries. The Jamestown Foundation points out that Iran is working the foreign aid and trade gambit in Afghanistan in hopes of producing a Tehran friendly client state.
Iranian Involvement in Afghanistan: Some regional experts argue that Iran is using the political tension between Afghanistan and Pakistan in its favor, leveraging the fact that Iran is the only route by which Afghanistan can maintain foreign trade. Afghanistan is becoming increasingly dependent on Iran for its transit trade route as a result of the tense Afghan-Pakistan relationship. Through this route, Afghanistan receives key imports such as electronic equipment, cars and spare parts—much of which originates in Japan. Food, clothing and other essential products are also supplied through Iran. This reality limits Washington's options to pressure Tehran since if Iran blocks its border, the Afghan economy could collapse.
In the meantime, the Iranian government is active in the financial sector as well. According to the Iranian official news agency IRNA, the chambers of commerce of the two countries have recently signed a number of documents, which are expected to make Iran a major player in the Afghan economy. Iran has become one of the largest donors in the reconstruction process in Afghanistan. An Iranian Foreign Ministry official puts the total amount of aid to Afghanistan since 2001 at about $600 million.
The Crisis of the Islamo-Fascist War: Why should the Democrats have control of Congress if they will use that power to destroy the fledgling movement toward democracy in Iraq that is the only hope for countering the false piety of the Islamo-fascists?
They are so ignorant of history that they think they can do this with impunity -- that if they can keep the media on their side (as they certainly are right now), they can win political control of America in the presidential election of 2008. Maybe they can. Just as Hoover won the presidency in 1928 just in time to preside over the Great Depression, maybe the Democrats will get complete control of the American government just in time for the disastrous world war and/or worldwide economic collapse that will be the certain result of the triumph of Islamo-fascism in the Middle East.
