Is Iran supplying the Taliban with shoulder-fired missiles?

For years, older-model, shoulder-fired missiles have circulated among Afghanistan’s militant community. They’re the kind of weapons that have the ability to take down helicopters — a major problem for a counterinsurgency where helos are often the only way to travel. But those missiles have been of limited utility to the insurgents, because the batteries are mostly dead.

According to SpyTalk’s Jeff Stein, however, an Afghan domestic intelligence agency report “says that Iran has supplied fresh batteries for some three dozen shoulder-fired SA-7 missiles stockpiled by Taliban forces in Kandahar, in anticipation of a U.S. attack.”