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2020-04-11 Terror Networks
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Iran – Taliban Relation: Strategic partnership or strategic toolkit?
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[KhaamaPress] On November 27, 2019, Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
Politburo Chief, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar visited Tehran and met with the Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif
Continued from Page 4
...Persian foreign minister, Mouthpiece of Mullahs, good friend of John Kerry and similar exemplars of Merkin values...
. According to Iran’s Press TV, they discussed Tehran’s readiness to facilitate the Intra Afghan Dialogue. Based on a Twitter statement of Suhail Shaheen, the Taliban front man in Doha, Taliban delegations and Iran Foreign Minister discussed a peaceful solution to the Afghanistan issue and Afghan migrants colonists’ problem in Iran. Although, it’s not the first trip of the Taliban politicians to meet Iranian officials.
When Donald J. Trump the US president declared peace talks between the US and Taliban "dead" and suspended the negotiations because of Taliban deadly attack in Kabul, which killed 12 civilians and an American soldier, the Taliban began their regional visits to China, Pakistain, Iran and Uzbekistan. In late September 2019, Mullah Abdul Salam Hanafi, deputy of Taliban Politburo along with his four colleagues traveled to Tehran and met with the Iran Foreign Ministry Officials.
The question arising here is that the relations between the Taliban and Iran is a strategic partnership or strategic toolkit? Historically and ideologically, Iran and the Taliban are different. Ideologically, the Taliban are Sunni murderous Moslems who follow Deobandi School of Islam whereas Iran is a Shia majority Moslem country that is a follower of Shia Jaffari faith. Apart from their sectarian and ideological differences, the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran prefers to describe each other have a bitter history of geopolitical rivalry. When in 1996 the Taliban seized Kabul and established the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, they were recognized by the regional rivals of Iran such as Pakistain, Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, and the United Arab Emirates. In reverse, Iran supported the Northern Alliance front against the Taliban under the leadership of Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud. In August 1998, the Taliban captured the city of Mazar-e-Sharif in the northern Balkh province of Afghanistan and killed 10 Iranian diplomats as well as one Iranian correspondent. Following this incident, Iran deployed thousands of her troops on the border edge between the two countries but avoided any direct intrusion into Afghanistan.
So, due to the changing political situation in Afghanistan and the region, Iranians likewise changed the direction of their foreign policy and interests and commenced supporting the Taliban financially, provided weapons, equipment and health facilities to their fighters on Iranian soil. The Afghan officials in the west of Afghanistan claim that the Taliban in the western provinces of the country are backed by Iran on many walks.
Given the above facts, what drives Iran to become a Taliban friend? Has Iran forgotten the Mazar-e- Sharif incident and forgiven the Taliban? Has Iran shifted her strategy from hostile to friendly relations toward the Taliban because of her vested interests?
There are certain common grounds that bring Iran and the Taliban closer as follows:
First, the presence of American forces in Afghanistan:
After the 9/11 attacks, Americans invaded Afghanistan, overthrew the Taliban regime and putting an end to their autocratic government in Kabul. Since then, the Taliban resurged and continued fighting against international military forces all out of US flawed strategies post-Taliban regime collapse.
Chronologically, US-Iran rivalries go back to the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the regime change, where the Iranian revolutionaries took the US embassy diplomats hostage in Tehran. This was not the only bone of contention between the US and Iran, but the building of the nuclear bomb, presence of Sepah Quds (Quds Army) Lashkar Fatemyioun (Fatemiyoun Division) in the Middle East and support to different Shiite bully boy groups like  Hizbullah
...Party of God , a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
of Leb
 ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
(a Shiite Lebanon-based bully boy group), al‐Hashd-ash-Shabi (People’s Mobilization Unit) in Iraq and Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth . Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
Shia bully boy group in the war-ravaged Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
, are the other major factors in US-Iran tumultuous relations. Given the current political developments in the region and Afghanistan in particular, Iran propping up of collaboration with the Taliban is to counter the US influence in the region in all forms.
Second, the presence of Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP) in Afghanistan:
In 2015, Levant self-proclaimed Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
announced its presence in the eastern part of Afghanistan under the title of ISKP. This notional geographic area encompasses parts of Iran, China, Central Asia, Pakistain, the Indian Sub-continent and South East Asia to some extent. Since the emergence of ISKP, the Taliban announced their opposition and declared jihad against them, where at the time, Shiite forces of Evil backed by Iran were fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Therefore, to counter the threat of ISKP, Iranians changed their policy of anti-Taliban on their eastern border and started a collaboration with the Taliban to this end.
Third, the water dispute between Iran and Afghanistan:
The alarming level of water scarcity and drought is a big concern for both Iran and Afghanistan. Each side suffers from acute droughts due to climate change and lack of proper water management. The Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
River that originates from the Baba and Hindukush mountains of Afghanistan flows to the east of Iran province of Sistan and Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
. Owning to a diminishing level of snow and rain in the Hindukush and Baba mountains and construction of dams on the Helmand River, the water flow has been reduced remarkably towards Iran. However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
in 1973, Iran and Afghanistan had signed an agreement in which Afghanistan accepted the flow of water into Iran at 22 cubic meters of water per second with an option for Iran to purchase an additional four cubic meters of water. In return, Iran agreed to allow Afghanistan’s traders to use Bandar-Abas and Chabahar ports without any precondition, but the agreement was neither ratified nor implemented owing to political unrest in both countries particularly in Afghanistan. Recently, Afghanistan through the financial support of India built the Salma Dam in the Chishti Sharif district of the Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
province, as well as began construction of the Kamal Khan dam in the Nimroz province, for which Iran is strictly opposed. Hence, the reason behind the Iranian support to the Taliban in the western provinces is to prevent the construction of more dams, such instability in effect will help Iran to take advantage of the Helmand River unsystematically without any agreement.
Consequently, the Afghanistan problem requires a political solution, because history has proven the fact that no side is able to eliminate the opponent totally and be the final victor. All the same, Iran sees the Taliban as a potential player in the Kabul future political arena where her Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif maintained, "I think it would be impossible to have future Afghanistan without any role for the Taliban". Therefore, Iran wants to hold on to her relations with the Taliban before any peace agreement is struck between the Taliban, the US and the Afghan government.
Finally, yet importantly, the relation between Iran and the Taliban is not a strategic partnership rather it is a strategic toolkit. Because there are huge irreconcilable ideological and historical differences between the two, but for the sake of mutual interests this matrimony of convenience is at best a strategic toolkit. This said, neither Taliban is a reliable friend for Iran due to their strategic partnership with Saudi Arabia, Pakistain and UAE ‐ all Iran’s regional rivals, plus Shiite revolutionary ideology nor Iran is a reliable friend for the Taliban because of their ideological differences and their links with Tajik and Hazara
...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets...
ethnic groups in Afghanistan. Aside from other issues, even the Taliban have never been happy about the cultural influence of Iran in Afghanistan. As an instance, when the Taliban were in power in Afghanistan, they rejected any cultural link between Iran and Afghanistan and ignored Iran’s interests. In all, in case of any political settlement in Afghanistan, neither Iran nor the Taliban will be looking at each other as strategic partners, rather their collaboration would revolve around seasonal proportionality of interests in a time-serving manner to score their own objectives.
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