Biden Sends Bombs, Iran Hosts Talks Between Afghanistan & Taliban

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Iran hosts talks between Afghanistan government and Taliban in a bid for peace

July 9th, 2021

Iran brought together envoys of the Afghan government and the Taliban movement in Tehran this week for a rare meeting between the two sides

The two-day Tehran summit, hosted by Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday and Thursday, yielded no breakthroughs but produced a statement recognising the need to end the country's civil war. "The two sides understand the risks of continuing war for the country, and have agreed that war is not a solution to the Afghan issue, and all efforts should be made towards a political and peaceful solution,"...Talks between the Kabul government and the Taliban, scheduled to take place in Istanbul in May, have been postponed indefinitely. Some analysts speculated that the Tehran meeting could be a precursor to more crucial talks being held at some point in the Qatari capital. Asadullah Sadati... called the meeting "a small step in the right direction". Mr Zarif was shown positioned at the head of two facing tables where the Afghan government and Taliban teams were seated.

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"We are very proud that we remained alongside our Afghan brothers and sisters during the jihad of the Afghan people against the foreign occupation," he was quoted as saying in a short video clip. But many Afghans are gloomy about the country's immediate future. The meeting in Tehran came less than a week after United States and allied troops hastily departed from the massive Bagram airfield north of Kabul and handed it over to Afghan security forces. ...

"The way that the US and Nato troops sort of disengaged from the situation created a big vacuum for the Taliban to step in to, and allowed them to come out and say they had defeated a 17-nation army." Washington and other world powers have attempted to bolster both the Afghan security forces and the government in Kabul to help them fend off both the Taliban and the local branch of Isis... "The Afghan peace negotiations team earnestly tried to have these discussions with the Taliban.

Iran shares a porous 570-mile border with Afghanistan and hosts an estimated 3.5 million Afghans. It has a keen interest in efforts to counter narcotics trafficking from Afghanistan ...Iran amassed troops along its eastern border and threatened war against the Taliban in 1999 after the group killed its diplomats in Mazar-e-Sharif, and helped the US topple the Taliban two years later. Witnesses have described huge lines at passport offices for fear of the Taliban. "People are afraid; a lot of people are hunkering down for a long fight," ... "The Taliban do not respect women's rights.... They have a history of illiberal policies and those seem to be coming back." Read more ...

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