Taliban

From Iran Supplying Weapons to Sunni Taliban: A shipment of Iranian-made weapons bound for the Taliban was recently captured by allied forces in Afghanistan, Gen. Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Tuesday. The Bush administration has charged that Iran has also been supplying lethal support to Shiite militants in Iraq. According to American intelligence officials, the support to militant groups in Iraq is so systematic that it could not be carried out without the knowledge of senior Iranian officials. “Based on our understanding of the Iranian system and the history of I.R.G.C. [Islamic Revolutionary Guard