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High-Ranking Afghan Commander: Iran Is Involved in Destabilizing Afghanistan

A high-ranking commander in the Afghan armed forces, Gholam Farough, intimated that Iran had delivered to Herat, Afghanistan 14 long-range missiles that have been discovered by the Afgan army.

He added that Iranian groups were involved in destabilizing western Afghanistan, and that armed Afghan oppositionists were being trained in Iranian camps to carry out terrorist attacks in Afghanistan.

Source: Alarabiya.net, October 18, 2009

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