Iran's illegal arms trade: 'Hypocritical and dangerous'

[Gerald]

Evidence is mounting that Iran is supplying weapons to the Taliban - and that British and other foreign troops are dying in Afghanistan as a result.

"Hypocritical, two-faced and highly dangerous."

Strong words from British Foreign Office Minister, Alistair Burt, referring to Iran's flouting of UN sanctions to sell arms to militant organisations like the Taliban.

Mr Burt's fury was sparked by a consignment of powerful rockets which was discovered in February in the hands of insurgents on an Afghan battlefield.

Investigators found the rockets were fitted with fuses which could only have come from Iran.

"Iran knows exactly what it's doing," Mr Burt told the BBC.

"On the one hand it claims to want to come back into the international community, and the next thing they're doing something that it knows is contrary to what the international community has decided."

The BBC has seen a letter from the UK Mission to the United Nations, addressed to the chairman of the Security Council committee on Iran, which states without hesitation that Tehran supplied the rockets to the Taliban.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13545621


Note: 6 June 2011 Last updated at 23:24 GMT

[MH]

Now that's stunning and surprising news.
I thought their only problem are naked girls.
Little cultural differences.

[Gerald]

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Originally Posted by Vendor

Looks like a verson of the BGM-71 TOW missile. Any info on that rocket attack?

NVM: it was old news: back in 2005.

[Gerald]

I'll see what I can get,OK, but I can provide more info from rocket if u want,

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Originally Posted by Vendor

I'll see what I can get,OK, but I can provide more info from rocket if u want,

Don't worry about it, I located the incident with a Google search.

[Gerald]

OK! Off Topic.

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Originally Posted by Vendor

OK! Off Topic.

Goteborg class corvettes and Landsort class mine hunters?

[Gerald]

Yes,Robot boats and supply ships and Stockholm-class