Comments on: Afganistan: Is Iran Supporting the Taliban?

By: news

news — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:45:57 +0000

Taliban new tactics on Afghan Election day:

Taliban Doctors will do some good work on suicide bombers. Already done …
Sharp eyes must be kept on cattles with bombs attached to them.
Most of the voters can be the bombers. So be careful.

By: Kabul Must Reconcile Moderate Taliban « Palashbiswaskl’s Weblog

Kabul Must Reconcile Moderate Taliban « Palashbiswaskl’s Weblog — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:12:39 +0000

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By: Siddiq

Siddiq — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:35:50 +0000

Iran has always been a meddler in the regional affairs, in the recent history Iraq had a full Iranian attention and now it is Afghanistan’s turn.
For their advantage and to divert the world attention from itself Iran will always keep the water muddy in the neighboring Afghanistan.
With the hands of Shiite Hazaras they are building mosques, universities and other institutions to promote the Iranian culture in Afghanistan, they even played a major role in the newly modified family law that has passed the parliament of Afghanistan. As they have a strong Hezbollah in Lebanon nothing will deter them from funding strong Shiite Hazaras in Afghanistan; not because they care about Hazaras but it is all to have a working puppet and a strong footstep in the country. They need to be dealt with sooner than latter, otherwise, we will have a major problem as we did during the cold war.

By: pat44@pallen44.orangehome.co.uk

pat44@pallen44.orangehome.co.uk — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:27:05 +0000

tell me what is all about? Gordon brown says it is to help stop terrorism in uk. He educates these people in the uk to promote terrorisum. I am a grandmother who lost a brother of 22 years of age through a tragic accident many years ago. I see these coffins returning here with young men, god do I feel for these families. Get our young lads home and deport anyone suspected of helping the taliban, just a suspect, get them out of our country and let them fight as they have done for thousands of years. Keep our young boys out of it. Send the shit mps to earn thier expenses.

By: KentS

KentS — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:56:06 +0000

Thanks for a balanced piece; rare in our current hyper-partisan world. Informative and you really made an effort to use non-inflammatory language and adequately quoted information from both sides.

I read A LOT of these things and I wish they all were as honest.

By: Daiyar

Daiyar — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:34:45 +0000

Its obvious that Tehran has been muddying the waters in Afghanistan. They would never want success and stability in Afghanistan credited to the United States.

By: j. kactuz

j. kactuz — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:11:10 +0000

Interesting article and certainly food for thought.
On one hand there is no love lost between Shia Iran and Sunni Taliban.
On the other hand, any grief that the Iranians can do to the US and Afhgan forces is plausible.
On the other hand, as mentioned, The Taliban persecutes Shia so it would be Shia helping Sunni to kill Shia.
On the other hand, helping the Taliban gives Iran influence in Taliban controlled areas of Afhganistan and Pakistan. Maybe one day they see a chance to restore the great Persian empires of the past that ruled from India to the red sea.
On the other hand, if supporting the Taliban in Pakistan they might make the folks in Islamabad forget India for a while.
On the other hand, oh phooey… middle eastern politics drive us all mad….
kactuz