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Iran supplying weapons, cash and training to Taliban

May 26, 2016 10:15 am By Robert Spencer

Sunnis and Shi’ites hate each other, but not as much as they hate the Infidel. Hence Iran’s support for the Taliban, as well as Hamas and Islamic Jihad: Sunnis who are waging jihad against Infidels are allies of Iran, as far as the mullahs are concerned. Such support also strengthens Iran’s ongoing maneuvering to be the leader of the Islamic world.

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“Death of Mullah Mansoor highlights Taliban’s links with Iran,” by Jon Boone and Saeed Kamali Dehghan, Guardian, May 23, 2016:

The killing of the Taliban chief on the main highway leading from the Iranian border shines new light on the movement’s complicated relationship with Tehran.

Although it is Pakistan that has traditionally been condemned for secretly supporting Afghan insurgents, analysts say Iran also provides weapons, cash and sanctuary to the Taliban. Despite the deep ideological antipathy between a hardline Sunni group and cleric-run Shia state the two sides have proved themselves quite willing to cooperate where necessary against mutual enemies and in the pursuit of shared interests.

Mullah Mansoor first entered Iran almost two months ago, according to immigration stamps in a Pakistani passport found in a bag near the wreckage of the taxi he was travelling in when he was killed by a US drone strike.

The passport, in the name of Wali Muhammad, also showed he had only just returned to Pakistan from the border crossing of Taftan, some 280 miles (450km) away from the site where he was killed, an area called Ahmed Wal, where he had stopped for lunch.

On Monday, the Iranian foreign ministry denied that “such a person had entered Pakistan from the Iranian border”.

“Iran welcomes any efforts made in bringing stability and peace to Afghanistan,” said spokesman Hossein Jaberi-Ansari.

It is not known where Mansoor went inside Iran, whether his trip was secretly facilitated by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard or whether he stayed among the large populations of Afghans living in eastern Iran, especially in the cities of Mashhad and Zahedan.

The Taliban also have ties to Sunni extremist groups operating in the Iranian province of Sistan and Balochistan.

A Pakistani official from Dalbandin, a district bordering Iran, said he did not think Iran would back foreign insurgents with links to such groups.

“All Afghan militants hold Pakistani nationality, it is not written on their forehead whether he is a militant or not,” said the official, who did not wish to be identified.

Nonetheless police and intelligence officials in western Afghanistan often complain the local insurgency is being managed and supplied with weapons and training from Iran….

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  1. kessler says

    May 26, 2016 at 10:41 am

    Interesting how the only thing which can unite shiites and sunnis is the hatred for infidels.
    Imagine if one day they decide to unify completely into one powerful jihadi movement – all efforts directed towards defeating/subjugating non-muslims.

    • Christianblood says

      May 27, 2016 at 12:06 pm

      (…Iran supplying weapons, cash and training to Taliban…)

      Iran is probably following the (great) pro-jihadist examples set by America when it provided arms, money, training and even religious encouragement to the Taliban and Alqaeda in the eighties. America is today backing the same Islamic jihadists in Syria as it did in the Balkans, in Libya and in Egypt. Watch:

      • Angemon says

        May 28, 2016 at 10:02 pm

        Christianblood posted:

        “Iran is probably following the (great) pro-jihadist examples set by America when it provided arms, money, training and even religious encouragement to the Taliban and Alqaeda in the eighties.”

        No, you ignorant dunce, Moscow-backed Iran is supplying jihadis because they’re jihadis. Persians were doing so before Europeans discovered America. Your speech is indistinguishable of any given muslim apologist – “islamic terrorists? it’s all US’s fault!”

  2. linnte says

    May 26, 2016 at 11:04 am

    “Iran welcomes ANY efforts made to bring stability and peace to Afghanistan” any efforts including supporting Jihad. These are very dangerous words!

  3. Angemon says

    May 26, 2016 at 11:27 am

    Despite the deep ideological antipathy between a hardline Sunni group and cleric-run Shia state the two sides have proved themselves quite willing to cooperate where necessary against mutual enemies and in the pursuit of shared interests.

    Imagine that… Who could have foreseen that sunnis and shias hate infidels more than they hate one another? Certainly not the pundits and talking heads on the MSM.

    Condoleezza Rice must feel vindicated – back in 2007 she said “there’s still a tendency to see these things in Sunni-Shia terms. But the Middle East is going to have to overcome that”.

  4. common sense says

    May 26, 2016 at 1:01 pm

    John Kerry said this would happen and viola! Here it is, the only thing he has gotten right.

    FBI, CIA, DHS. all have repeatedly said they can’t properly vett those refugees coming from war torn areas and the Jihadist among them will lie anyway.

    ISIS even tells us they are implanted in the refugee population and still the dipshot polly’s let them in.

    At home and abroad western authorities capture those plotting with ISIS or attempting to join them while our govt hands the enemy in the middle east military grade weapons. Hussein releases more and more *detainees* (Islamo-aholes) at the same time. Then let in more refugees.

    Brilliant… a swirling vortex of chaotic hypocrisy on every level.

  5. gravenimage says

    May 26, 2016 at 1:32 pm

    Iran supplying weapons, cash and training to Taliban
    ………………………

    Even though the Sunni Taliban oppressed and murdered minority Shi’ite Hazara when they were in power in Afghanistan, this is nothing compared to the common Muslim desire to slaughter Infidels.

    God, I hate Islam.

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    May 26, 2016 at 1:39 pm

    Yes, the outcome or fruits of this so called “deal” that Obama, Kerry and the other naive politicians in the West is a disaster. In other words the results this hoax and fraud of a “deal will only further enable this tyrannical Islamic regime in power in Iran to further send weapons and other supplies to the brutal and murderous jihad terror group known as the Taliban. Likewise that farce of a “deal” also makes it easier for this Islamic tyranny of Iran to fund with weapons and supplies other Islamic terror entities. Such as Hezbollah and Hamas. What gullible fools Obama and Kerry are to make such a worthless and even harmful agreement with Iran.

  7. David says

    May 27, 2016 at 9:47 am

    Message to President Trump;
    Please clean up the pile of pig feces known as IRAN. May I suggest we simply let a nuclear tipped missle simply go “off course” and accidentally detonate there?
    Would solve that problem nicely! ?

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