UK 'Senior Army Source': Iran supplying Taliban with weapons including surface-to-air missiles

Above: In February 2006, Iran broadcast this test of its new Misagh 2 missile, “capable of tracking and destroying aerial targets that fly at low altitudes and in the blind spot of radar systems”. The older SA-7 Strella missile is a relatively unsophisticated shoulder-fired missile manufactured by Russia and widely available.

British troops in Afghanistan are being targeted by surface-to-air missiles supplied by Iran, a senior Army source said yesterday.

Officers in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard are supplying hundreds of weapons, including the missiles, to Taliban insurgents, it is believed.

Most worrying is the news that SA7 Strella anti-aircraft missiles have been supplied to the Taliban. The weapons are a serious threat to helicopters supplying more than 6,000 troops.

It is not thought the Taliban are well trained in how to use the weapons most effectively. In southern Helmand yesterday they fired an anti-aircraft weapon at an American F18 fighter without hitting it.

Other weapons being smuggled in include plastic explosives, anti-tank mines, AK47s, mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns.

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