"... US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that Iran is directly or indirectly communicating with opposition groups in Egypt, Bahrain and Yemen in a bid to shape events there... "They are doing everything they can to influence the outcomes in these places," Clinton told the Senate Appropriations Committee. "They are using Hezbollah... to communicate with counterparts... in (the Palestinian movement) Hamas who then in turn communicate with counterparts in Egypt," the chief US diplomat said. "We know that they are reaching out to the opposition in Bahrain. We know that the Iranians are very much involved in the opposition movements in Yemen, ... So either directly or through proxies, they are constantly trying to influence events. They have a very active diplomatic foreign policy outreach," she added.
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In a bid to counteract the Iranian moves, she said, the United States is making diplomatic and other contacts of its own with opposition groups across the Middle East and North Africa. "Most people want us to be helpful but they don't want us to be taking a leading role, ..... But it is also a challenge for the Iranians. They don't have a lot of friends (AND THE US DOES?), but they're trying to curry more friends," Clinton said...."
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