At this rate Bush will be named an honorary Iranian.

     Mojaddadi: Iran best friend, neighbor of Afghanistan
     27. December 2005, 23:19
     IRNA - Iran is the best friend and neighbor of Afghanistan, Afghan
Senate Speaker Sebghatollah Mojaddadi told Iran's Foreign Minister
Manouchehr Mottaki here on Tuesday.

     Mojaddadi said Iranian brothers have paid their due share of
brotherhood, friendship and neighborliness over the past few years, which
cannot be forgotten.

     Mottaki said Iran's attaches high significance to parliamentary
relations with Afghanistan.

     Over the past years, Iran has hosted more than two million Afghan
refugees, issuing 500,000 visas for them, said Mottaki.

     Tehran does not consider its ties with Kabul to be against a third
state and its domestic interests, he added.

     Iran, the minister noted, paid dlrs 568 million to Afghan government
over the past four years in a bid to have a share in the country's
reconstruction, said Mottaki.

     "We expect Afghan government to lift barriers to the activities of
Iranian companies and entrepreneurs and provide necessary facilities for
them," he added.

     Whatever Iranian media wrote in the course of the past 28 years were
in favor of Afghans, said Mottaki, adding Afghan media are expected to avoid
publishing anti-Iran articles.

     A member of Majlis presiding board Moussa Qorbani, also present at the
meeting, voiced Iran's readiness to share experience and have cooperation
with the newly established Afghan National Council.

     Mottaki left Kabul for Tehran on Tuesday evening after a two-day visit
and talks with Afghan president Hamid Karzai, his counterpart Abdullah
Abdullah and speakers of both houses of Afghan legislature.
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