This article doesnt bother to mention some of the recent outrageous and fundamentally false allegations that this administration has made about Iran and its involvement in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Recently some weapons were apparently smuggled over the Iranian border to the Taliban by criminals in the private sector with no links to the Tehran government and the Bush administration accused the Iranians of supporting the Taliban. The Taliban have been one of Tehran's biggest regional opponents for years, the Bush administration is just unwilling to admit that in this case American and Iranian interests are one in the same. Even more surprising are the allegations that are circulated throughout the media that Tehran is arming anti-American insurgencies. The fact is that the only confirmed Iranian proxy in the country is the SCIRI (Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq) that along with the Al-Dawa party of Nouri Al Maliki are the two closest allies to the United States. Even if the Sadrist Mahdi militia receives aide from Tehran they have not only agreed to not attack American troops under any circumstances but they even withdrew their militias from the streets to better accommodate the changes in the recent security surge. All the talk that Iran is making the weapons that kill American troops is propaganda, in the cases of the two Iraq and Afghanistan Iran shares interests with the United States. If we cooperated with Tehran these proxies could operate more effectively.