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.
米国の主張に反応して、イラン大統領マームド・アフマディネジャドはテレビインタビューで、主張は米軍のイラク「駐留を延期する言い訳だ」と言い、米国は「敗北と失敗を隠す」ために他を非難しているのだと言った：しかし、２月１２日のダイアン・ソーヤーとのインタビューで、アフマディネジャドは、彼の国がイラクの反乱軍に武器を供給しているという告発に答えることを拒否した。