Karzai confirms cash from Iran
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has acknowledged that his office has received cash from Iran, but insists it was part of a �transparent� process. Karzai was responding to a report in the New York Times that Tehran had been passing bags stuffed full of cash to Karzai’s aides. Lisa Mullins gets the latest from the BBC’s Quentin Summerville in Kabul and a reality check from Pamela Constable, former Kabul bureau chief for the Washington Post.
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