Retroactive Post: Taliban admit to Iranian Support and Supplying

[khushal]

and thus Randolph's assessment of using the Taliban to solidify their influence and dissuade America who they see as their bigger enemy, makes perfect sense.

From Irans point of view, America has been defeated in Afghanistan whether the Taliban come back to power or the NA stay in power. This war is between the Taliban/ISI/Sunni Arab alliance vs the NA/Iran/Russia alliance. America is in the middle of it confused on what to do. The Americans have no real allies in the country. They are being used by the latter alliance.
If Iran wants to use the Taliban in any meaningful way for their own interests, they would pay them to stop fighting just like they have done in Iraq with Al Sadrs militia, solidify the NA/Karzai admin and devise stretegy for the NA to depend on Iran. That way they can solidify influence in Afghanistan.
This is what Pakistan did, they devised strategy for the Taliban to depend on Pakistan so that way they have influence over them. This is what happened between the Soviet union and the Afghan government after WW2.

Same thing in Iraq, the Americans have lost whether the Sunni Arabs come back to power or the Shia Arabs rule Iraq. The only allies the US has in Iraq are the Kurds and they cant rule Iraq.

This is why most scholars call this the biggest blunder in American foreign policy's history. They have stumbled upon a no win situation.

[faye]

but they have managed to pollute both countries, iraq and afghanistan, with genocidal depleted uranium. maybe, whoever is behind these wars considers that winning.

[Haris]

Captured Taliban
Commander: 'I Received
Iranian Training'

FARAH, Afghanistan -- A Taliban commander captured in southwestern Afghanistan
claims to have received military training in Iran to target a major dam in the region.

The claim was made by Mullah Dadullah, who was captured recently in the Lash-e
Zoveyn region of Farah Province, close to the Iranian border.

"I was trained in Iran for three months. Our trainers were a mix of Pakistanis, Iranians,
and Arabs," Dadullah, the head of a group of some 150 Taliban fighters, told
journalists under police supervision on August 23 in the provincial capital, Farah.

"Ali Talibi and Hussein Rezai were two of my Iranian instructors. They taught me to
fire rockets and to plant mines," he added. "I was trained in setting up remote
controlled mines and planting antitank mines. Even developed countries would have
been unable to discover the mines I planted."

Senior U.S. and Afghan officials have long accused Iran of supporting Afghan
insurgents. But Tehran has consistently denied such accusations.

Dadullah claimed to have been involved in insurgent attacks in the southwestern
provinces of Farah, Helmand, and Nimroz during the past three years.

He said that recently Iranian officials offered him $50,000 in return for destroying the
Kamal Khan Dam in Nimroz Province, east of Farah.

Farah's provincial police chief, Gahussudin Samunwal, said that Dadullah was tasked
with sabotaging major infrastructure projects in the region.

"He was trained for blowing up the Kamal Khan Dam. He was also tasked to attack
other major infrastructure projects in the provinces bordering Iran," Samunwal said.
"Fortunately, he was arrested by the police" before he could act on his plans.

The Kamal Khan Dam is located in the Char Borjak district of Nimroz Province. After
completion it will significantly reduce water flow to the neighboring regions of
southeastern Iran, which already face severe water shortages.

Afghans also accuse Tehran of attempting to slow down the construction of Salma
Dam in western Herat province which borders northeastern Iran.

Captured Taliban Commander: 'I Received Iranian Training' - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty © 2011

[Niazi]

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