Taliban Try to Butter Up Trump: ‘No Serious Obstacles’ to Ties with U.S.Frances Martel 16 Sep 2025
Senior Taliban officials emphasized a desire for normal relations with the United States during a visit with a delegation representing the White House this weekend, Afghan media reported, as the Americans focused on talks to free American prisoners in Afghanistan.
“After the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan, there are no serious obstacles in bilateral relations that cannot be resolved,” Zakir Jalali, identified as a “third political director” in the Taliban’s Foreign Ministry, asserted on Sunday, according to Afghanistan’s Tolo News. Jalali compared America’s relationship with Taliban-ruled Afghanistan to the immediate situation between America and Vietnam after the communist overthrow of the legitimate government of that country, claiming that “Kabul and Washington are in a better position.”
“The fact that the U.S. delegation has opened its doors to Kabul marks a new and more serious phase in continuing negotiations,” Tolo News quoted Jalali as saying. The report did not clarify what, exactly, he meant by the administration of President Donald Trump “open[ing] its doors to Kabul.”
Trump sent a delegation led by U.S. Special Envoy for Hostage Affairs Adam Boehler to meet with senior Taliban officials on Saturday. Boehler was accompanied by longtime American representative for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad and the two, according to multiple reports, focused on negotiating freedom for Americans trapped under the repressive jihadists’ rule. The two met with Taliban “foreign minister” Amir Khan Muttaqi in an exchange the Taliban described as cordial and productive.
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