{"id":2207,"date":"2011-07-11T08:28:15","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T15:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=2207"},"modified":"2011-07-11T08:28:15","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T15:28:15","slug":"iran-denies-smuggling-weapons-to-iraq-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=2207","title":{"rendered":"Iran Denies Smuggling Weapons To Iraq, Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran Denies Smuggling Weapons To Iraq, Afghanistan<br \/>\nJuly 02, 2011<\/p>\n<p>The semi-official Fars news agency quotes Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi as saying &#8220;the ridiculous and repeated lies of the Americans are aimed at justifying their own errors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Wall Street Journal&#8221; on July 1 quoted unnamed U.S. officials as saying Iran&#8217;s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps has supplied allies in Iraq and Afghanistan with rocket-assisted exploding projectiles which have been used to kill American troops.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper quoted the same officials as saying Iran has also given long-range rockets to the Taliban in Afghanistan, increasing the insurgents&#8217; ability to hit coalition positions from a safer distance.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/iran_denies_smuggling_weapons_to_iraq_afghanistan\/24253554.html\">  &#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D2207&amp;text=Iran+Denies+Smuggling+Weapons+To+Iraq%2C+Afghanistan&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran Denies Smuggling Weapons To Iraq, Afghanistan July 02, 2011 The semi-official Fars news agency quotes Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi as saying &#8220;the ridiculous and repeated lies of the Americans are aimed at justifying their own errors.&#8221; &#8220;The Wall Street Journal&#8221; on July 1 quoted unnamed U.S. officials as saying Iran&#8217;s elite Revolutionary Guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=2207#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[1449],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}