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Sebagai reaksi kepada tuntutan Amerika Syarikat, Presiden Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad berkata dalam satu wawancara televisyen bahawa dakwaan itu adalah "alasan untuk memanjangkan penempatan" tentera A.S. di Iraq, dan bahawa Amerika Syarikat telah menuding jari kepada orang lain dalam usaha untuk "menyembunyikan kekalahan dan kegagalan"; Walau bagaimanapun dalam temu bual dengan Diane Sawyer pada 12 Februari, Ahmadinejad enggan memberi komen tentang tuduhan bahawa negaranya telah membekalkan senjata kepada pemberontak di Iraq.
Reacting to the U.S. claims, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a television interview that the allegations were "excuses to prolong the stay" of the U.S. military in Iraq, and that the U.S. was pointing fingers at others in an effort to "hide its defeats and failures"; however in an interview with Diane Sawyer on February 12th, Ahmadinejad refused to address accusations that his country was supplying weapons to insurgents in Iraq.