DAR AL HARB/ISLAM - U.S.A./IRAN: N.A.T.O. INTERCEPTS WEAPON SHIPMENTS TO TALIBAN, VIOLATES S.C.R. 1747, THE WORLD YAWNS OR LOOKS THE OTHER WAY

U.S. diplomat says NATO has intercepted Iranian weapons shipments to Taliban

PARIS (AP) - The United States has "irrefutable" evidence that Iran is transferring weapons to the Taliban in Afghanistan, with the knowledge of the Iranian government, and NATO has intercepted some of the shipments, a senior U.S. diplomat said Wednesday.

"There's irrefutable evidence the Iranians are now doing this," said Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns on CNN. "It's certainly coming from the government of Iran. It's coming from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard corps command, which is a basic unit of the Iranian government."

Speaking separately to The Associated Press, Burns also said that NATO needs to act to stop the shipments. The Iran-Afghanistan frontier is "a very long border. But the Iranians need to know that we are there and that we're going to oppose this."

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Iran Violating UNSC Resolution By Arming Taliban In Afghanistan

(RTTNews) - Wednesday, Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said that the US has "irrefutable" evidence to prove that Iran is supplying weapons to the Taliban in Afghanistan, with the active knowledge of the Iranian government, and that NATO has intercepted some of the shipments.

"There's irrefutable evidence the Iranians are now doing this," Burns told CNN. "It's certainly coming from the government of Iran. It's coming from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard corps command, which is a basic unit of the Iranian government."

Accusing the Iranians of arming Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza and the West Bank and, Shia militants inside Iraq, Burns stated that nefarious activity by the Iranian government is in violation of the UN Security Council.

"Iran is operating against the last Security Council Resolution 1747, passed on March 24, which said that Iran must not transfer arms outside of Iran, and here it is doing it in Lebanon, in Gaza, in Afghanistan, and in Iraq, so Iran is in outright violation of its Security Council commitments," according to Burns.



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