It emerged this week that Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, has been accepting “bags of money” from Iran, reportedly as transparent aid to help cover palace expenses. Although Iranian money and weapons for use against Nato forces have been pouring for many years into Herat, in western Afghanistan, the nonchalance of President Karzai’s response to Iranian cash in Kabul raised eyebrows in the media.
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