Posted on 11/02/2021 10:30:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Iran is hosting a meeting of... the foreign ministers of Iran, China, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Russia holding talks in the Iranian capital Tehran on Afghanistan's political future and the formation of a new government...
Iran's population is majority Shiite but Sunni minorities live predominantly in the areas near the border with Afghanistan. The Sunnis have long complained about discrimination by Iranian authorities.
Due to dilapidated infrastructure and a lack of health and educational facilities, the areas near the Afghan border are the poorest and least developed in Iran...
But Fatemeh Aman, an Iran expert at the Washington-based Middle East Institute (MEI), told DW that "Iran has miscalculated." ...
Iran had already begun negotiations with representatives of the Taliban before the withdrawal of international troops from Afghanistan, presumably hoping that it would help Tehran to gain influence in Kabul...
Within the Taliban, however, the radical wing — including the Haqqani Network with its strong ties to Pakistan — seems to have prevailed. Sirajuddin Haqqani, a son of Jalaluddin Haqqani, who founded the network in the 1980s during Afghan resistance against Soviet occupation,for instance, has become Afghanistan's new interior minister.
Haqqani is believed to be the mastermind of numerous suicide bombings over the past 15 years and is on a US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) wanted list.
Last week, Haqqani offered economic assistance, including agricultural land, to the families of Taliban suicide bombers.
The farmland, it appears, is to be looted from the Shiite minority. According to Human Rights Watch, the Taliban are driving members of the Hazara ethnic and religious minority away from their villages in Afghanistan's fertile north in order to seize their property.
(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...
This article was translated from German.
The best part of a muzzie civil war is, everyone wins.
Pot meets Pressure Cooker (aka Kettle).
Pot meets heroin, in this case. ;^)
That would be more accurate, considering their ‘lifestyle’.
Muslim heads will roll, literally.
Would be great if Iran nuked the Taliban and Turkey nuked Iran.
Yeah, it's gonna get ugly, **** that's a shame. It's been a paragon of peace and prosperity until now.
China wants Afghanistan’s mineral resources.
bkmk
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