Iran Supporting & Arming the Taliban

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

State Department Country Report on Terrorism:

IRAN

Iran remained the most active state sponsor of terrorism. Iran’s financial, material, and logistic support for terrorist and militant groups throughout the Middle East and Central Asia had a direct impact on international efforts to promote peace, threatened economic stability in the Gulf and undermined the growth of democracy.

Iran remained the principal supporter of groups that are implacably opposed to the Middle East Peace Process. The Qods Force, the external operations branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), is the regime’s primary mechanism for cultivating and supporting terrorists abroad. Iran provided weapons, training, and funding to HAMAS and other Palestinian terrorist groups, including Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC). Iran has provided hundreds of millions of dollars in support to Lebanese Hizballah and has trained thousands of Hizballah fighters at camps in Iran. Since the end of the 2006 Israeli-Hizballah conflict, Iran has assisted Hizballah in rearming, in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701.

Iran’s Qods Force provided training to the Taliban in Afghanistan on small unit tactics, small arms, explosives, and indirect fire weapons. Since at least 2006, Iran has arranged arms shipments to select Taliban members, including small arms and associated ammunition, rocket propelled grenades, mortar rounds, 107mm rockets, and plastic explosives.

Despite its pledge to support the stabilization of Iraq, Iranian authorities continued to provide lethal support, including weapons, training, funding, and guidance, to Iraqi Shia militant groups that targeted U.S. and Iraqi forces. The Qods Force continued to supply Iraqi militants with Iranian-produced advanced rockets, sniper rifles, automatic weapons, and mortars that have killed Iraqi and Coalition Forces, as well as civilians. Iran was responsible for the increased lethality of some attacks on U.S. forces by providing militants with the capability to assemble explosively formed penetrators that were designed to defeat armored vehicles. The Qods Force, in concert with Lebanese Hizballah, provided training outside of Iraq and advisors inside Iraq for Shia militants in the construction and use of sophisticated improvised explosive device technology and other advanced weaponry.

Iran remained unwilling to bring to justice senior al-Qa’ida (AQ) members it continued to detain, and refused to publicly identify those senior members in its custody. Iran has repeatedly resisted numerous calls to transfer custody of its AQ detainees to their countries of origin or third countries for trial; it is reportedly holding Usama bin Ladin’s family members under house arrest.

Senior IRGC, IRGC Qods Force, and Iranian government officials were indicted by the Government of Argentina for their alleged roles in the 1994 terrorist bombing of the Argentine-Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA); according to the Argentine State Prosecutor’s report, the attack was initially proposed by the Qods Force. In 2007, INTERPOL issued a “red notice” for six individuals wanted in connection to the bombing. One of the individuals, Ahmad Vahidi, was named as Iran’s Defense Minister in August 2009.

Country Reports on Terrorism 2009 State Sponsors of Terrorism

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Do u expect all of us to believe wat the ISI says and take it to heart...and so if tomo RAW says that we r not doing anything in Afghanistan and Balochistan would u ppl drop all charges against India..?

And secondly for the part in red,is that not the bad taliban that is attacking the ISI/PA while the "good Taliban" that is in faraway Afghanistan and is being supported by Iran..? pardon my sarcasm.

And as u urself has admitted that they maintain still some contacts for some xyz purpose..wats the guarentee that it doesnt go beyond the xyz purpose..?

If you do not wish to take what the ISI/PA and GoP say 'to heart' then where is the evidence supporting your POV? We have all seen the discredited wikileaks reports marked 'secret', and they are such a bunch of unverified rubbish that it makes you wonder what all these years of 'anonymous sources' feeding Western media articles were basing their comments on.

The contacts maintained by the ISI are primarily for hedging our bets and maintaining relative peace in certain areas where military operations are currently not being conducted due to resource constraints.

Wrong comparison.
the CIA and in turn US' interest right now is a stable Pakistan so that they can participate in the Afghan war in their earnest.

So atleast now it is still incredulous for u to suggest that CIA supports TTP.

And Pakistan's interest is in a stable and peaceful Afghanistan that does not threaten Pakistan, so why would we be supporting the Taliban anymore?

Pasban has already answered.

Pasban has not denied that elements of the State in Iran support the Taliban, but only offered some convoluted rationale for why it does so.

p.s.: Im not saying that all reports saying that ISI supports Taliban is true and all reports alleging that Iran supports Taliban are false.
But based on past history it is still logical to give the benefit of doubt to Iran in this case,..but not to the ISI because some (or rather many) parts in the ISI still see the Taliban as a asset that can be utilised in post-US afghanistan.

Past history means nothing - past actions occured becasue, as you said yourself, States had interests in pushing particular policies. If the US has no interest in supporting Jihadi groups anymore, unlike what they did in the past, then why should Pakistan, since the primary purpose behind Pakistan's support of the Taliban was to stabilize an Afghanistan in the midst of a civil war affecting Pakistan, and bring about a regime that would not attack Pakistan overtly or covertly as had happened in the past.

Iran on the other hand has a real current interest in supporting elements of the Taliban against the US, since the US is its overwhelming priority in the region currently, and it would like to keep it tied down and damage it as much as possible to stave off the possibility of US military aggression against Iran.

 

[H2O3C4Nitrogen]

you can bet those weapons find their way to Pakistan. and kill Pakistani soldiers as well. lol, and don't think for a minute the U.S. is going away from Afghanistan anytime soon. maybe once Osama is dead and the Afghan Government asks NATO to leave we might. But not until then.

yes i blv u, theres whole alot of caspian oil which will ose through this path and US will go for it once the Iraqi oil is consumed up...!!!

 

[Nahraf]

State Department Country Report on Terrorism:

IRAN
Iran remained the most active

The US State Department reports completely ignore and white wash Zionist Nazis crimes against humanity in Palestine while exaggerate Iran's ties with Talibans. Iran was nearly at war with Taliban ruled Afghanistan and if there are any links they would be temporary. Iran supports anti-Taliban alliance in Afghanistan.