October 30, 2007
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN04494/SN04494.pdf
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U63wVHHj__VbnJKillcoPBWYA7Qfho_m/view?usp=sharing
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D. Afghanistan
While analysts argue that majority-Shi’a Iran and the Taliban regime in Sunni Afghanistan were rivals, and that Iran has benefited from the Taliban’s overthrow, it is now suspected that Iran has formed a tactical alliance with anti-government forces in Afghanistan. Iran is accused of employing the same tactics in Afghanistan as it does in Lebanon and Iraq: arming and training insurgents for attacks on US and allied forces. It is alleged by British intelligence officers that the al-Quds force is supplying the same bomb-making equipment as has been arriving in Iraq. Materials for making 50 explosively formed penetrators, a type of roadside bomb familiar from operations in southern Iraq, were discovered in lorries crossing the border from Iran, according to US Afghanistan head General Dan McNeill, who said that this showed the Iranian regime’s active support for the Taliban. He said: I cannot see how it is possible for at least the Iranian military, probably the Quds force, to not have known of this convoy. […] The observation of a number of British officers who served in southern Iraq was that [the bomb timers] were relatively common there and that they originated from Iran.30
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D. Afghanistan
While analysts argue that majority-Shi’a Iran and the Taliban regime in Sunni Afghanistan were rivals, and that Iran has benefited from the Taliban’s overthrow, it is now suspected that Iran has formed a tactical alliance with anti-government forces in Afghanistan. Iran is accused of employing the same tactics in Afghanistan as it does in Lebanon and Iraq: arming and training insurgents for attacks on US and allied forces. It is alleged by British intelligence officers that the al-Quds force is supplying the same bomb-making equipment as has been arriving in Iraq. Materials for making 50 explosively formed penetrators, a type of roadside bomb familiar from operations in southern Iraq, were discovered in lorries crossing the border from Iran, according to US Afghanistan head General Dan McNeill, who said that this showed the Iranian regime’s active support for the Taliban. He said: I cannot see how it is possible for at least the Iranian military, probably the Quds force, to not have known of this convoy. […] The observation of a number of British officers who served in southern Iraq was that [the bomb timers] were relatively common there and that they originated from Iran.30
