'Iran Seeking To Keep Afghanistan Unstable: US Official', Agence France Presse, 6 May 2008
EXCERPT: "Iran is seeking to keep Afghanistan weak and unstable, delivering arms to the Taliban whilst ostensibly supporting Kabul's government, a senior US state department official said in Paris Tuesday [6 May 2008]. 'They (Iran) interfere in a variety of different ways, perhaps not as violently as they do sometimes in Iraq,' Richard Boucher, assistant secretary of state for south and central Asia, told reporters at a press conference. 'But what we see is Iranian interference politically, Iranian interference in terms of the money that they channel into the political process, Iranian interference in terms of playing off local officials against central government, trying to undermine the state in that way.' Boucher was speaking in Paris as part of preparations for a major international donors' conference for Afghanistan, due to take place in the French capital on June 12."
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'Top US officer says would prefer no war on Iran', Reuters, 5 May 2008
