Iran cash: Afghan president says Iran makes cash payments - latimes.com

Iran cash: Afghan president says Iran makes cash payments - latimes.com

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Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan —

Afghanistan PresidentHamid Karzai on Monday acknowledged that his office regularly received large cash sums from Iranian officials but insisted there was nothing untoward about the payments.

The New York Times, in an article in Monday's editions, described the periodic transfer of bulging sacks of currency to a senior Karzai aide and strongly suggested that the money was meant to curry favor on behalf of the Tehran government in policy matters."