Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, has accused the US of playing a “double game” in Afghanistan, following talks in the country with his counterpart Hamid Karzai.
The accusation, made in the capital Kabul on Wednesday, was the same as that made against Iran by Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, on a trip to Afghanistan this week.
Asked at a news conference with Karzai about Gates’ comments, Ahmadinejad responded: “The question is what are you [Gates and troops] doing here in this region?
“You are 12,000km away on the other side the of the world. What are you doing here? This is a serious question.
“They are not successful in their fight against terrorists, because they are playing a double game. They themselves created this excuse of terrorism themselves, and now they say that they want to stop them. It is not possible.
“The fight against terrorism is not a military one it requires the work of intelligence, through respecting nations and to separate people from terrorists.”
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