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| Foreign Forces Threaten Iran, Region: Rouhani |
| 2013-12-10 |
[Tolo News] The Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... on a visit to Tehran this week that the foreign forces in Afghanistan posed a "threat for Iran and the region." The Iranian President's comments come just as negotiations over a security pact between Kabul and Washington have hit a rough patch, making the potential of a complete severing of military ties between the U.S. and Afghanistan after the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... combat mission ends in 2014 a real possibility. "Iran is opposed to the presence of any foreign force in the region, the Middle East, the Persian Gulf and particularly the Islamic country of Afghanistan," Rouhani told Karzai on Sunday. "They should all leave and leave the security of Afghanistan to its own people." President Karzai met with Iranian leaders to discuss economic, political and security relations between their countries. The two Presidents agreed to sign a "Friendship and Cooperation Pact" soon. For months Washington and its allies have urged Karzai to sign the BSA, which would establish the legal conditions for the U.S. and other NATO troops to remain in Afghanistan past 2014 to train, advise and assist local security forces and fight Al-Qaeda. The accord would be expected to pave the way for some 10,000 America soldiers to stay, and would secure some 4.1 billion USD in military aid for Afghanistan. |
| Posted by:Fred |