Posted on 08/25/2021 2:57:25 PM PDT by KingofZion
Iran this week restarted fuel exports to Afghanistan that had been disrupted by fighting between the Taliban and forces under the now deposed Afghan government, traders in Tehran and former U.S. officials say, with the Taliban now providing critical dollars to the sanctions-crushed Iranian economy from its lucrative narcotics operations.
The burgeoning trade relationship between Tehran and the Taliban threatens to undermine key U.S. pressure campaigns against both.
Iran has been cut off from the global market for the greenback by U.S. sanctions, and the Taliban’s willingness to trade with their neighbor gives Iran rare access to U.S. dollars it needs to import essential goods and bolster its depreciated currency.
Meanwhile, the arrangement enables the Taliban, who are also cut off from trade and finance by international sanctions, to purchase basic commodities vital to keeping the ailing Afghan economy running.
Iranian traders, who had been selling to Afghan businessmen under the supervision of the U.S.-backed government in Kabul, stopped sending refined petroleum to their Eastern neighbor this summer after fighting escalated between the Afghan national army and the Taliban.
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The hits just keep comin’.
And it will be a BOON for the Taliban.
American’s stranded in the country as the last C17 takes off.
Hmmmmm.....lets put them on AlJezeera and charge the USA for each person. What would be the going rate? $50,000,000 a person? Either that or they get their heads chopped off.
And there’s no going back over there dropping bombs or sending in Delta Force. They’ll all get their heads cut off then and the Taliban is surrounded by civilians.
That won't last long. All the assets of Da Afghanistan Bank have been frozen by the U.S. and the World Bank. The Taliban win shortly have nothing to buy the oil with and nothing to buy it with.
There will still be some bartering. The Iranians know how to use those Blackhawk helicopters.Their Air Force was originally trained bty the US and they still prefer American products. The Iranians will trade oil for Blackhawks and other aircraft.
What about all that advanced US weaponry? What about Chinese/Russian funding for access to rare minerals? Or even more nefarious, what about the US funding the Taliban to put down the forming Northern Alliance rebellion because it might upset the stability that the Biden team wants? There are so many ways the Taliban can get the resources they want.
It’s gonna cost ‘em 10%!
What is Iran going to do with it without maintenance and spare parts? Besides, if Iran is cash-strapped I don't think arms are going to solve that.
What about Chinese/Russian funding for access to rare minerals?
We're talking about Iran. But if China thinks they're going to walk in and take it all over then I think the Taliban might not be too thrilled about that.
Or even more nefarious, what about the US funding the Taliban to put down the forming Northern Alliance rebellion because it might upset the stability that the Biden team wants?
Yeah wake me when that happens.
Wait until Iran builds a pipeline through Afghanistan directly into China.
For sure there should be increased movement of Afghan opiates into Iran == which already has a very serious narcotics use problem.
No proof of anything, but the US is not interested in helping. Ollie North was on TV urging those who could to send them supplies.
If the Taliban truly took over everything, they will do pretty well. The Opium trade brings in $8-$10 Billion Dollars a year and the Ephedra Trade brings in another $10 Billion. I find it hard to believe the CIA is just giving up this cash cow they have had since forever??
Fixed it.
1. Obama, Biden, HRC, VJ, Rice, Brennan
- Cause massive ME chaos with Arab Spring,
- Infill Muslim Brotherhood to lead toppled governments (two of which were friendly toward Israel)
- Create ISIS (with help from a power I will not mention), smuggle and ACCIDENTALLY airdrop thousands of tons of weapons to AQI/ISIS
Trump
- MOAB’s Taliban
- Largely fixes “rules of engagement” while taking flak from some his inherited left wing DoD staff
- Launches 69 special payload Tomahawks to destroy UFAC entries to mostly Russian engineered chemical weapons storage sites across Syria, mostly containing chemical weapons exfilled from Iraq from 1993-2003 (with a smile, resumes dinner with Xi in Florida)
- Takes out ISIS
- Gets SA and UAE to align with Israel, and makes massive weapons trade deals with each
- Designs and begins implementing plan (with many pivotal agreement terminating requirements), to carefully and safely get out of Afghanistan, including the promise to defend/rescue the Afghan Government and Army if necessary
The Black-Hat deep state puppet face Buyden
- Does secret deal with Chinese and Taliban (June/July) including making Taliban the dominant leadership of Afghan government (with Russian and US diplomats all present)
- Completelly throws out Trumps Afghan military exfill plan
- Stockpiles massive weapons, tens of thousands of armored vehicles, 208 working and maintained aircraft (surveillance planes with ISR), munitions caches at several bases, and including biometric systems
- Orders given to DoD for rapid evacuation, and to leave everything behind and unprotected
- Notifies current Afghan government of Taliban takeover
- With the US, China, Russia, and Iran placing all power behind Taliban, the Afghan Army mostly quits and runs
- Orders State Department to issue US Visa applications to every citizen of Kabul (and other locations)
- Orders notification of US Visa applicants (hundreds of th oi samds) as being treated the same as Green Card holders, and US citizens
- Refuses to order protection and exfill US citizens and their families before Green Card holders and Visa applicants
- Mass rush on airport ensues, jamming all routes and the airport itself
- Only 10% percent of all people being flown out of Afghanistan are women and children
- With Irans help, ISIS now reportedly taking control of multiple US bases and weapons caches I Afghanistan
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Yep, everything is back on Obama’s track!
Doubt the Iranians got any training on the Blackhawk, since it didn’t enter service until 1978 at the earliest.
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