Hundreds of Taliban fighters are being trained by Iranian Special Forces inside military academies in Iran, The Times reported, quoting Afghan officials.
According to the newspaper, the intense and unprecedented Iranian exercises of the Taliban are not just a manifestation of the proxy war between the United States and Iran, but they reflect a shift in Iran’s policy and its desire to influence the course of the Afghan war.
According to a political adviser to the Taliban in Pakistan, the paper cited the name, Iran requires two things for the fighters to ensure training: focus more on attacking Americans and NATO interests.
The 38-year-old adviser, who has been a bomb maker in southern Afghanistan, says Iran and the Taliban began talks this spring on sending insurgents to Iran for six months of training under the supervision of Iranian Special Forces.
Iran resorted to Taliban fighters after the US president terminated the 2015 nuclear deal due to Tehran’s irrationality and its continued destabilization and support for terrorism.
Recently, the Taliban chose their brightest and most young fighters and then sent them to Iran in small groups, where they were greeted by Iranian officials upon arrival, and then taken to training camps.
A number of trainees went to a camp in the western province of Kerman Shah, but the report said Iranian intelligence officials were likely to have received other Taliban trainees.
Sources from the Taliban that more than 300 visas offered by Iranians to the fighters in the thirty-four Afghan provinces, during the past year.
Iran’s focus on the Taliban was a response to mounting US pressure and President Donald Trump imposed sanctions on Iran, while Tehran was betting on the nuclear deal to get rid of the country’s economic hurdles.
This is another proof that when Islamists agree on targets, Islamic jihadists cooperate with each other, whether Sunni or Shiite.
mortimer says
The High Priests of Taqiyya. Their doubletalk is concealed inside doubletalk. The Shi’ites will use whatever they learn to infiltrate and defeat the mullahocracy if that suits them at a later time. Islamists think nothing of starting WWIII.
mortimer says
Western countries and especially NATO countries (like GERMANY) had better realize that these Talibans may end up in Europe and cause much damage. The politicians had better start listening to Robert Spencer before their populations reap the whirlwind of Islamism courtesy of Iranian military schools.
The military commanders in the field have to teach themselves quickly about Islamism.
It is simple (yet challenging) to deprogram Muslims. Once they realize that Islam cannot be defended by any argument, and that the Koran is a man-made document, they abandon Islam instantly. Islam is non-historical, amoral, factually in error on hundreds of points, and self-referentially incoherent … thus, Muslims may abandon Islam with confidence.
Angemon says
Iran actually acts upon the motto of “death to America”? I’m shocked, SHOCKED!!!
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/04/04/iran-killed-more-us-troops-in-iraq-than-previously-known-pentagon-says/
Walter Sieruk says
This alliance between the Taliban and that Islamic “mullah regime” seems like a good idea to jihad-minded Muslims who hate America and Israel.
Nevertheless, this will, in time, end in disaster for the brutal ruffians who up the Taliban along with those in power in that Islamic tyrannical regime of Iran.
As the Bible reads in Proverbs 11:21; Though they join forces, the wicked will not go unpunished.” [N.K.J.V.]
gravenimage says
Taliban and Iranian Alliance against the West
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Does it matter that the Taliban slaughters Shia Hazara in Afghanistan? Apparently not. Hating the Infidels trumps everything for pious Muslims.
Infidel says
Which is why withdrawing from Afghanistan is a great idea – the Iranians will only be surrounded by Pashtuns, Arabs, Turks and others – pretty much all of them Sunni – and will be up against them all. Even their traditional allies like Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood won’t stay w/ them since they’re now being courted by Turkey and Qatar
Once we withdraw, as Hugh used to argue, all these Muslim groups would just turn on each other. And that’d be a
goodgreat thing!Gyomza says
They will turn on Israel where they will eventually meet their Waterloo.
Adam says
This story is BS. Iran is dead broke, the only way this could be true is if somehow, someway they could have gotten there hands on plane loads of cash, on pallets, flown right in, in the dark of night.
But that would be crazy.
Infidel says
I too have strong doubts about this story. As Gravenimage pointed out, Iran has a Shi’ite Hazara militia in central Afghanistan who they back. I don’t see how they’d start working w/ the Taliban before ensuring the safety of the Hazaras
gravenimage says
Actually, Infidel, I was not saying that I doubt this story. I meant that Jihadists often ally with each other even when one or both is targeting the other sect. This is actually quite common.