Bush threatens to confront Iran over alleged support for Iraqi insurgents

George Bush yesterday ramped up the war of words between the US and Iran, accusing Tehran of threatening to place the Middle East under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust and revealing that he had authorised US military commanders in Iraq to "confront Tehran's murderous activities".
In a speech designed to shore up US public opinion behind his unpopular strategy in Iraq, the president reserved his strongest words for the regime of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which he accused of openly supporting violent forces within Iraq. Iran, he said, was responsible for training extremist Shia factions in Iraq, supplying them with weapons, including sophisticated roadside bombs. Iran has denied all these accusations.

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State Department Dismisses Letter, Which Excoriates U.S. Policies in Iraq, Israel

Excerpt from Letter:

The five-page letter, which was both conciliatory in references to "Noble Americans" and scathing in lambasting Jewish influence in the United States, said there is an urgent need for dialogue between Iranians and Americans because of the "tragic consequences" of U.S. intervention abroad.

In Iraq, he wrote, hundreds of thousands have been killed, maimed or displaced, while terrorism has grown "exponentially" and daily life has become a challenge. "With the presence of the US military in Iraq, nothing has been done to rebuild the ruins, to restore the infrastructure or to alleviate poverty," he wrote. ". . . I consider it extremely unlikely that you, the American people, consent to the billions of dollars . . . from your treasury for this military misadventure."

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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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