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Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Iranian Outreach

Iran remains at war with America:

NATO forces in Afghanistan have seized about 50 Iranian-made rockets intended to aid the Taliban's spring battle campaign, the most powerful illicit weapons ever intercepted en route from the neighboring state, an intelligence official said Wednesday.

The shipment is seen as a serious escalation in Iran's state support of the Taliban insurgency, the international intelligence official said. It's also an escalation in the proxy war Iran is waging against U.S. and other Western forces in Afghanistan, as Washington continues to lobby for tougher international sanctions against Tehran to dissuade it from its alleged goal of building nuclear weapons.

In case you are wondering about how our nuanced outreach has affected Iran's mullahs.