US: Nato has proof of Iranian shipments to Taliban

NATO has intercepted Iranian weapons shipments to Afghan- istan’s Taliban insurgents, providing evidence that Iran is violating international law to aid a group it once considered a bitter enemy, a senior US diplomat said yesterday.

“There’s irrefutable evidence the Iranians are now doing this,” US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said 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.”

Mr Burns has also said that Nato must 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”, he said.