El Sidd
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Taliban using magnetic bomb is basic technology and Iran-Taliban coordination these days goes much higher than something of this caliber anyway. The news that exploded all over the media recently about Russia paying bounties to Taliban for killing US soldiers in Afghanistan was routed by Iran so the backchannels between Iran and Taliban are as strong if not stronger than Pakistan and Taliban since Iran and Taliban are both against US while Pakistan is now in the US camp which makes for icy and somewhat mistrustful relations between Pakistan and Taliban.
Who do you think shot down E-11 in Afghanistan?
That was joint operation by Iran and Taliban to kill 2 birds with 1 stone. Iran gave Taliban the intel and Taliban shot it down. Iran got their guy and Taliban got the credit. Both sides win.
US did their absolute best to sweep E-11 crash under the carpet so nobody ever learned about it. I am sure even on PDF there are many people who would not have even heard of this until now because of the extreme efforts and lengths US went to cover up E-11 Afghanistan crash in complete secrecy and sweep it under the rug so that no one ever finds out about it. Even now I am amazed how few people know about this. Iran killed the CIA chief behind Soleimani's assassination essentially by giving the Taliban intel to shoot down the plane he was on while flying over Afghanistan on Jan 27, and yet only a handful of people even know about it. Taliban shot down E-11 in Afghanistan, you know who else shot down US intelligence aircraft? Iran shot down RQ-4 drone in Strait of Hormuz. So there is definitely something going on behind the scenes at high level between Iran and Taliban. Everyone on the plane was killed in the shootdown. I think the E-11 shootdown in Afghanistan was actually the real revenge for Soleimani's assassination and US went to extreme lengths to cover it up so that no one ever realized that Iran managed to return the favor. The missile strikes in Iraq were a complete diversion to take attention away from this E-11 shootdown in Afghanistan. The E-11 crash should have been a much bigger deal if not for a massive US coverup to make sure no one ever finds out about it.
TLDR: Iran-Taliban links are much deeper than people think, E-11 shootdown in Afghanistan with CIA Iran chief on the plane was the biggest example of Iran-Taliban coordination.
Talibs may have experience a plenty with IEDs and explosives but the sophistication required to take down an E11 remains beyond the group which has become more and more decentralized.
There are multiple players involved in the Afghan game. Influence of each of them is exaggerated.