Taliban claims of Iran training dismissed by diplomats

By Ben Farmer in Kabul 240PM GMT twenty-one March 2010

Iranian security officials are precision militants to conflict checkpoints, towering bases and convoys, as well as plant lethal roadside bombs, the Sunday Times reported.

Groups of Afghan militants were since an expenses-paid 3 month march at a stay nearby the Iranian locale of Zahedan.

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One unnamed low-level commander in chief in chief from Ghazni range in Afghanistan told the Sunday Times "Iran paid for the total trip. We paid the transport fees to proceed with and once we got to Iran they refunded us.

They paid for the food, the mobile phone cards, any expenses."

British and American officials have formerly pronounced elements inside of Tehran and the Revolutionary Guard have supposing medium await to the insurgents in Helmand, but have not severely attempted to tip the change opposite the bloc as they did in Iraq.

Shia Muslim Iran is deeply questionable of United States troops involvement on the border, but is additionally believed to be reluctant to see an nonconformist Sunni Taliban system of administration as a neighbour.

Last year limit officials pronounced explosives together with anti-tank mines continually flowed opposite the Iranian limit in to Afghanistan.

Two unnamed Taliban insurgents told the journal the precision sessions had started last winter. They pronounced it was misleading if their instructors were police, soldiers or members of Iran"s comprehension services.

The initial month was outlayed on formidable ambushes on relocating convoys, the second on planting homemade roadside bombs and the third on attack bound rivalry positions.

Both commanders pronounced Iran additionally granted them with weapons, utilizing donkeys, camels and horses to lift the reserve in to Afghanistan.

However one comparison shrewd person told the Dailythat there was comprehension that Iran was instead holding off await to the Taliban and had not long ago refused requests for arms.

Iraqi insurgents inflicted complicated casualties on bloc forces with Iranian-made, made bomb charges that could explosion by panzer division plating.

Iran has so far refused to supply poignant quantities of identical high-tech weapons to the Taliban.

Another source pronounced whilst there were thought to be medium precision camps in Iran, they were "a dump in the sea compared to what is going on in Pakistan".

"Iran is a daze in this compared to what is function in alternative neighbours."