THREE MARTINI LUNCH: NOVEMBER 7, 2014

National Review's Jim Geraghty joins guest host Brett Winterble. Today's topics: Republicans in Congress threaten to defund any executive order that favors amnesty, Obama reaches out to Iran, and the Pentagon struggles to keep pot out of the military.



Pentagon: Iran Giving 'Lethal Aid to the Taliban' to Fight U.S.

Iran continues to provide "calibrated lethal aide to the Taliban" in Afghanistan to help the group conduct attacks on U.S. and Western security forces operating in the country, according to a new report published by the Pentagon.

Iran's elite military force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has been supplying various arms to the Taliban as part of Tehran's mission of eradicating Western forces and preventing the United States from safely establishing permanent bases in Afghanistan, according to the Pentagon's 2014 "Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan" report, which was published in October.

The arms are being provided by Iran as a supplement to a $1 billion aid program aimed at keeping the Afghan government firmly in Tehran's corner, according to the report.

Details of Iran's clandestine support for the Taliban come as the Obama administration quietly continues its efforts to enlist Iran in the fight against the Islamic State (IS)...

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