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2020-06-23 Afghanistan

Afghanistan, Iran to Form Strategic Cooperation Pact

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Posted by trailing wife 2020-06-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Is this meaningful, dear Reader?

Suggested yesterday:

Iran will push north and east in a unification effort of Russia's abandoned tribes during the churning of Turkey's forces.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-06-23 09:00|| 2020-06-23 09:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Every once in a wile the Middle East has to pause for comic relief, this is one of those times. The idea, yea spectacle of the calm, rational Iranians 'cooperating' with sober and deliberative Afghans is, is...well, one would need a heart of stone.

Posted by Cesare 2020-06-23 10:05|| 2020-06-23 10:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Ironically, nothing is said of the narcotics problem for which Iran holds Afghanistan responsible. In forty years some 4,000 Iranian police have been killed and tens of thousands injured in anti-narcotics operations. In 2012 (the last year for dependable data) Iran had 1.2 million drug-dependent users, and the UN claimed Iran had one of the world's most severe addiction problems. Its figures in 2012 showed that drug addiction and HIV rates had soared in recent years, with injecting drug users accounting for almost 70% of the country's 22,000 detected HIV cases.

Posted by b 2020-06-23 10:40|| 2020-06-23 10:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Gosh, b, no wonder we never applied napalm to those poppy fields.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-06-23 13:38|| 2020-06-23 13:38|| Front Page Top

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