IRAN WANTS AFGHANIS TO HALT OPIM TRADE

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- In the first such visit in 40 years, Iran's
president came to Afghanistan on Tuesday with a promise of $500 million in
aid and an appeal to the new Kabul government to crack down on the Afghan
opium that has hooked millions of Iranian addicts.

President Mohammad Khatami also had strong words for American critics who
contend Iran has done little in the war on terrorism.

"We are victims of terrorism," he told reporters. "We have longer experience
than the Americans in fighting terrorism."

Some U.S. officials accuse Iran of having allowed al-Qaida fugitives to
cross through its territory since the ouster of the Taliban and their
al-Qaida terrorist allies in Afghanistan.