Iran has never interfered in the internal affairs of Afghanistan.

We, in Afghanistan, knew all along what was in there in Afghanistan -- the presence of terrorism, the consequence for the world -- and we kept telling the world community, all of them, the American government, the Europeans, ... Unfortunately ... our predictions came true in the most tragic way for Afghanistan and for the United States of America. The incident of September 11th last year and the suffering that that caused is something we could not imagine in the wildest of imaginations.

We had information about last week that Mullah Omar was somewhere in western Afghanistan ... in a mountainous area. We sent people to look for him. We could not find him, but we will keep looking for both these persons and they will be arrested. It's just a question of time.

In my opinion, and also in the opinion of many, many Afghans, events in Afghanistan has proven that terrorism has no place in here, that it's defeated, that it's gone,

They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.

His presence there, I'm sure, will add to stability and peace in Afghanistan.