See how this story compares to a big massacre of Shias today in Afghanistan, I will post that story momentarily.
Iran Sending Commandos to Afghanistan in Bid to Spread Empire and Defeat U.S.
by TheTower.org Staff | 08.07.17 5:40 pm
By embedding itself throughout Afghanistan’s government and cultivating networks of assassins and spies, Iran is “working quietly and relentlessly to spread its influence … following the withdrawal of the United States,” The New York Times reported Saturday.
While Iran was once at odds with the Sunni terrorist group, it now sees the Taliban as a “loyal proxy” that can be exploited to “keep the country destabilized, without tipping it over.”
Iran’s growing ties with the Taliban emerged after a United States airstrike in Pakistan last year, which killed Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour. Mansour died shortly after returning from a trip to Iran, where he met with top Iranian and Russian officials.
While Iran had originally fought the Taliban, it later supported it in order to raise the cost of American intervention in Afghanistan, with an eye towards getting the United States to retreat. Iran has increasingly come to view the Taliban as a “useful proxy force,” the Times reported.
Continued: http://www.thetower.org/5301-iran-sending-commandos-to-afghanistan-in-bid-to-spread-empire-and-defeat-u-s/
This story might be fluff; might not be true; but Iran is not going to be any kind of pushover in their own backyard. In fact, it's probably the opposite. Russia may not be in this full-fledged but they do seem to be allied with Iran some. I'm not sure what that is worth. Russia and Israel at the same time, seem to have fairly good diplomatic relations.
