Iran Denies U.S. Charge That It Is Arming Terrorists in Iraq

AP

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

This image provided by the U.S. military shows what officials say are high-tech explosives traced to Iran.

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Monday rejected U.S. accusations that the highest levels of Iranian leadership have armed Shiite militants in Iraq with armor-piercing roadside bombs, a day after U.S. military officials in Baghdad said they had traced the weapons to Tehran.President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a televised interview aired Monday that his country was opposed to conflict and bloodshed in Iraq and that problems in Iraq should be solved with dialogue, not the use of force."There should be a court to prove the case and to verify the case. The position of our government ... is also the same. We are opposed to any kind of conflict in Iraq," Ahmadinejad to ABC's "Good Morning America."The deadly and highly sophisticated weapons are known as "explosively formed penetrators," or EFPs, which have killed more than 170 troops from the American-led coalition. Three senior U.S. military officials in Baghdad said the "machining process" used in the construction of the deadly bombs had been traced to Iran.

Of course Iran would deny these charges, what are they supposed to do stand up and admit it. I have to confess though I no longer believe anything that I read or hear about this kind of issue. Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons, if memory serves. In my view of it, we need to get complete and indisputable confirmation about every rumor, accusation or theory lest we make the same mistake twice!

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