{"id":38781,"date":"2013-12-09T06:45:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T11:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38781"},"modified":"2013-12-09T06:45:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T11:45:51","slug":"iran-complains-about-tensions-caused-by-foreign-troops-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38781","title":{"rendered":"Iran complains about &#8220;tensions&#8221; caused by foreign troops in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/middle-east\/iran-says-it-opposes-foreign-presence-in-afghanistan-1.256708\">Associated Press<\/a> reports that Iran, the greatest supporter of terror throughout the world, told Afghan president Hamid Karzai that they&#8217;re concerned about the &#8220;tension&#8221; caused by the presence of foreign troops in Afghanistan and that Afghanistan should expel the foreigners as soon as possible so Iran can feel safer;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Earlier on Saturday, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel laid out steps to beef up defense cooperation between states within the Gulf region, while at the same time insisting that America&#8217;s military commitment to the Middle East will continue.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s Defense Minister Gen. Hosein Dehghan called the remarks by his American counterpart &#8220;threatening,&#8221; on Sunday, adding that they pave the ground for mistrust toward the U.S. while revealing the influence of Israel \u2014 Iran&#8217;s arch enemy \u2014 on Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Iran believes that countries of the Gulf are capable of managing security through regional security pacts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, a regional security pact would do wonders, and Iran is probably the best choice to broker that pact for the region. Most of the Gulf States want the US to provide them with a missile defense system to protect them from Iran, so that makes total sense. I wonder why Iran would want US troops out of Afghanistan?<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/trouble-in-afghanistan-s-most-peaceful-province-may-hint-at-the-post-nato-reality-1.256279\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> article, they report that when NATO troops left the Bamiyan province, the most peaceful region of Afghanistan until April, the insurgency moved in, a precursor for Iran&#8217;s vision of Afghanistan in 2014 when US troops are scheduled to leave the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press reports that Iran, the greatest supporter of terror throughout the world, told Afghan president &hellip; <a title=\"Iran complains about &#8220;tensions&#8221; caused by foreign troops in Afghanistan\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38781\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iran complains about &#8220;tensions&#8221; caused by foreign troops in Afghanistan<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}