Iran will not recognize a taliban head chopping government though. Taliban have a really bad name/reputation in IRan. They have executed Iranian diplomats, and acted like medieval savages in the 90s to be honest. it would be terrible PR for the Iranian government domestically and internationally to be linked with this.. "Iran recognized taliban government massacres X, chops Ys head off etc.etc.." especially if prominent leaders such as masood start losing their heads.. not to mention the millions of afghans refugees that will flood Iran and cause potential economic/security problems.
Iran will definitely recognize a Taliban-led government as long as the latter respect the assurances they gave Iran. Iran's embassy in Kabul is still functioning.
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Iranians themselves set the benchmark mark when it comes to attacking embassies.
Nobody was killed in the event though. Detainees were treated humanely, female and African-American employees released immediately on the first day.
Iran on the other hand has had several of its diplomatic missions bombed (by fighter jets in Yemen, by terrorists in Lebanon), diplomats abducted and mistreated (by US occupation troops in Erbil, northern Iraq), imprisoned under bogus pretexts (as recently in Belgium) and brutally assassinated (like in Afghanistan in the early 90's). In fact, Iran tops the list of victims when it comes to violence against embassy and consulate personnel.
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The Taliban should profoundly apologize to Iran, it seems Iran has also laid ownership of Panjshir.. foolish Taliban trying to meddle with Iranians affairs inside their own country by liberating the last resistance stronghold.. I can't wait when the Ayatollah scolds PMIK inside the Pakistani secretariat, for leaving the lights on past curfew...
Well, at the end of the day it will be up to the Taleban to decide whether they wish to maintain the promising new relationship with Iran they've been working on for the past few years, including through numerous bilateral meetings. As a large neighbor hosting some 4 million Afghan nationals and the biggest exporter to Afghanistan, Iran has legitimate interests with regards to that country. Iran and the Taleban pretty much reached an agreement to enable mutually constructive ties.
If the Taleban believe it's not worth accommodating Iran's concerns and decide to adopt a hostile line - something extra-regional, imperialist powers and mainly the US are very much inciting them to do, then Tehran would certainly adjust its policies accordingly. If it came to this however, it definitely wouldn't be in any of the regional actors' interest (neither the Taleban, nor Iran, nor Pakistan). Only the zio-American empire would immediately stand to benefit.
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I thought this operation was against ISIS. The same ISIS which came transported through Iran.
Source? "I"SIS are not allowed through Iran.
Qatar is close to Taliban. Qatar is arabic country. Qatar is claimed by Iran.
Iran has no claims on Qatari territory and has regular diplomatic ties with Doha.
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Shia guards use to poison food of Sunni prisoners in Iraq. They would add crushed glass into prisoners food. US military police sole job was to stop Iraqi prison guards and cooks from killing prisoners.
Is there evidence for these assertions? As for benevolent American prison guards, have you heard of Abu Ghraib and the systematic abuses committed there by US occupation forces on Iraqi detainees?
As per declassified Al qaida letter, son of Bin Laden who went to Iran along with his family was imprisioned and were psychologically tortured. Pregnant Wife of Bin laden son was denied emergency medical treatment by Iranians until their unborn child died.
Americans claim the opposite: namely that Iran has been hosting and supporting these Al-Qaida elements.
The most probable hypothesis is that they were held under normal conditions, sometimes even just put under house arrest and neither eliminated nor allowed to operate from Iran.
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Iran's FM complaining about fictitious Pakistani operation whilst their own interventions run the length and depth of the Arab world. You literally couldn't make it up.
Iran's FM didn't complain nor mention Pakistan, brother. Only some media reports did.
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a certain Sect members will make every excuse to prove the news wrong
Shia Pakistanis reading the kind of sectarianist incitement encountered in this thread will come to realize how the hostility promoted by certain quarters is not merely directed at Iran as a foreign government, but includes them as a community due to their religious background.
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Surprised and disappointed.
What I don't get is why NOW?
If Iran wanted to be a spoiler, it could have done that when Taliban were taking over or were about to take over, but it didn't.
Why now? What's the catch?
No, I'm not looking for some diplomatic morality infused comment. I am talking about geo political interests/leverage of Iran which she wants to extract from somebody by making a fuss out of it NOW? Who is that somebody? US? Europeans? or anyone else? And what exactly is that interest/leverage?
I don't think it's meant to extract concessions from a third party. In my opinion, it's either one of the two following possibilities:
* Some of the local leaders killed during the Taleban operation in Panjshir used to have friendly relations with Iran.
* No local partners of Iran were killed, but Tehran is worried that this might set a precedent whereby the Taleban would get emboldened - with additional direct or indirect encouragement from the US regime, to proceed with force against other political groups in Afghanistan, including ones which are really allied with Iran.
Or maybe, it's yet another issue unbeknownst to the public. But whatever the reason may be, the nature of the Iranian spokesperson's statements make it clear that Iran has not reversed its stance on the Taleban, but is in fact communicating a certain message it hopes will not fall on deaf ears in Kabul.
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They didn't expect the lightening taliban campaign that captured the whole country within days instead of months that was estimated by everyone. They were waiting for the US to withdraw and then they would have slithered into western Afghanistan. ANA folded even before the US withdrew and Taliban went after border areas first instead of major cities. They blocked any aid from north or western neighbors to play the spoiler. Iran is now acting indignant as their plans for Afghanistan went up in smoke.
I doubt it. Because Iran established regular contacts with the Taleban and started negotiations with them years ago. So Tehran is likely to have anticipated recent developments.
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Why did the foreign minister talk about Pakistan's meddling when Pakistan never speaks about Iran's meddling in Syria and elsewhere?
The Iranian Foreign Minister never mentioned Pakistan, brother. A journalist asked the Foreign Ministry's spokesman about reports of Pakistani involvement, and the spokesman just replied that such reports will need to get investigated, ie he neither named Pakistan nor confirmed said reports.
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Does Iran want a war with us?
A war, simply for verbally disagreeing with a particular Taleban operation? It's a bit far fetched.
