Irrelevant what Ahmadinejad says or thinks.
Why a nobody is given importance here ? He even doesn't deserve a thread.
Exactly. Ahmadinejad has practically turned into an anti-IR activist ever since he and his aides were sidelined by the system. One of his closest advisers, Hamid Baghai, was sentenced to a heavy prison term, hence his bitterness. A few months ago, he even gave an interview to an anti-Hezbollah TV channel in Lebanon.
If people aren't familiar with Iran's internal politics, their comments on topics like these can go off track. First thing to remember is that the Islamic Republic is a diverse polity, with factions whose views can be completely opposed to one another.
Interesingly Tajiks makes a reasonable population of Afghanistan yet we are not discussing what Tajikistan, Turkeministan etc are saying but anything coming out from Iran is being discussed to death.
Agreed. The focus on Iran is striking. You had Saudi Arabian media such as Al Arabiya rehashing reports of supposed Pakistani intervention in Panjshir, yet hardly a protest. Some (not all) Iranian media do the same, a storm is unleashed.
Fact is that many hidden hands along with naive patsies are working to engineer a crisis between Iran and the Taleban, hoping to draw in Pakistan as well. Needless to say, this would not be to the interest of any of the three sides mentioned. Chief among these spoilers are NATO, the US and the zionist entity, and they are being assisted by India, western-apologetic liberals inside Iran, but also by Iran's enemies and rivals in the region as well as some extremist sectarianist elements. You can see all this crowd literally drooling at the prospect of a deterioration of ties between Iran and the new Afghanistan government.
There's currently a lot of domestic pressure on the Raisi administration, the IRGC and the Supreme Leader to change their stance on the Taleban and start acting against them. This pressure emanates from the liberal factions ie from reformists and centrists, who are orchestrating a huge media campaign to this effect, going as far as enlisting films stars and other so-called "celebrities" to influence public opinion. In order to accommodate the public, the administration therefore needs to make a few Taleban-critical statements here and there, but for the time being the revolutionary core of the Islamic Republic (revolutionary political factions plus IRGC plus Supreme Leader) are resisting the pressure, and the statements or media articles you see are just that: statements not followed by concrete policy steps.
Pakistan should get in touch with the Raisi administration and with Esmail Qaani, commander of the Quds Force, and support them in their internal struggle against liberal forces.
