Thursday, March 5, 2009

Helping the Great Satan in Afghanistan......for a Price??


US, EU seek Iran help on Afghanistan

Press TV

"The new US administration reportedly plans to invite Iran to an international conference to discuss the worsening Afghan security situation. "Iran will be invited to attend," Reuters quoted an unnamed senior US official as saying on Thursday.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that Washington was looking to engage Tehran on Afghanistan. Clinton also unveiled that there had been consultations between Iran and the US ambassador on a daily basis regarding Afghanistan just after the US military toppled the Taliban in 2001.

Following seven years of occupation and the failure of some 70,000 US and NATO-led troops to bring peace and stability to Afghanistan, Washington has called on the war-ravaged country's neighbors to help deal with the situation......"

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