Posted on 12/07/2016 7:42:16 PM PST by BeadCounter
Afghan Senate members have certified the existence of documents affirming that Taliban collected endorsements from both Iran and Russia. Indeed, Taliban members are located in the cities of Mashhad, Yazd and Kerman in Iran. They often travel to and fro between the two countries, according to locals at the border of Afghanistan.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry denied these reports.
A number of deputies of the Council of elders of Afghanistan, advocated that: “Moscow supplied the Taliban with ammunition in order to restrain the widening influence of ISIS and its affiliated groups in Afghanistan and preclude threats against the Central Asian countries.”
(Excerpt) Read more at english.alarabiya.net ...
http://www.voanews.com/a/afghanistan-iran-russia-taliban/3624592.html
“The probe comes after U.S. General John Nicholson, leader of NATO’s Resolute Support Afghan mission, said over the weekend that Taliban connections to Russia and Iran are not advancing the cause of stability in the region.”
The Russians turned me into a newt.
“Moscow supplied the Taliban with ammunition in order to restrain the widening influence of ISIS and its affiliated groups in Afghanistan and preclude threats against the Central Asian countries.”
Which is only necessary because Clinton and Obama (plus McStain and a few others) created ISIS in the first place.
Good grief, what a mess we have to clean up after. Like following around a toddler with diarrhea.
In other words, the Russians are more successfully co opting the Taliban than is the obama WH
Iran supporting Taliban - I think we’ve known about this for over 10yrs.
Example reported 08/02/12 :
http://www.ibtimes.com/why-iran-building-ties-taliban-737116
“Over the past few years, reports have filtered out that the Taliban were receiving Iran-made military equipment.”
No amount of words will convince me, Assad did not allow Jihadists to operate from Syria during the Iraq war that started in 2003; the Bush administration even almost expanded the war to Iraq and Syria harbored Saddam’s brother.
By the same token, maybe we shouldn’t have operated against the Russian in Afghanistan back in the ‘80s.
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