{"id":2137,"date":"2007-06-13T12:05:55","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T18:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2019-10-13T12:46:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T18:46:03","slug":"cheneys-iran-arms-to-taliban-gambit-rebuffed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/cheneys-iran-arms-to-taliban-gambit-rebuffed\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheney&#8217;s Iran-Arms-to-Taliban Gambit Rebuffed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\"  href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/cheney_iran.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/cheney_iran.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>By Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service<\/p>\n<p>A media campaign portraying Iran as supplying arms to the Taliban guerrillas fighting U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, orchestrated by advocates of a more confrontational stance toward Iran in the George W. Bush administration, appears to have backfired last week when Defence Secretary Robert Gates and the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, Gen. Dan McNeil, issued unusually strong denials.<\/p>\n<p>The allegation that Iran has reversed a decade-long policy and is now supporting the Taliban, conveyed in a series of press articles quoting &#8220;senior officials&#8221; in recent weeks, is related to a broader effort by officials aligned with Vice President Dick Cheney to portray Iran as supporting Sunni insurgents, including al Qaeda, to defeat the United States in both Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>An article in the Guardian published May 22 quoted an anonymous U.S. official as predicting an &#8220;Iranian-orchestrated summer offensive in Iraq, linking al Qaeda and Sunni insurgents to Tehran&#8217;s Shia militia allies&#8221; and as referring to the alleged &#8220;Iran-al Qaeda linkup&#8221; as &#8220;very sinister&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>(Original Article)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service A media campaign portraying Iran as supplying arms to the Taliban guerrillas fighting U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, orchestrated by advocates of a more confrontational stance toward Iran in the George W. 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