Iranian Newspaper Accuses Taliban of Silent War Against Tehran Funded by US
Key Takeaways
- Jomhuri-e Eslami alleges the Taliban receives $50 million monthly from Washington while conducting a covert campaign against Iran.
- The newspaper accuses the group of violating Helmand water agreements, running assassination squads in Iran, and harboring terror networks.
- The editorial urges the Iranian Foreign Ministry to abandon diplomatic concessions and stop handing diplomatic missions to the Taliban.
Iranian conservative daily Jomhuri-e Eslami has issued a scathing critique of Tehran's foreign policy toward the Taliban, accusing Afghanistan's rulers of waging a "silent war" against Iran. The newspaper strongly condemned Iranian politicians and diplomats who previously characterized the group as a legitimate liberation movement that ended the 20-year American occupation, warning that the de facto Afghan government is operating directly aligned with Western and anti-Iranian objectives.
The editorial claimed that the Taliban receives approximately $50 million per month from the United States while posing zero opposition to Western regional interests or Israeli actions in Gaza. It further alleged that Afghanistan has become a sanctuary for over 20 terrorist groups, accusing the Taliban of infiltrating operatives into Iranian cities, causing deadly explosions, orchestrating hit squads against Afghan dissidents in Tehran, Mashhad, and Karaj, and defying legally binding treaties regarding Helmand River water rights.
Highlighting Iran's internal vulnerabilities, the paper sharply criticized the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for handing over the Afghan embassy in Tehran and consulates in Mashhad and Zahedan to the group despite ongoing hostile activities. It noted that the Taliban systematically represses pro-Iran ethnic groups, shuts down Shia cultural institutions, and dismantles grassroots networks that could otherwise provide strategic support to Iran during external military confrontations.
The publication warned of unmonitored mass migration flows across the eastern border, asserting that uncontrolled entry could facilitate clandestine Taliban intelligence operations. It concluded by demanding immediate strategic reassessment and accountability from Iran's interior and foreign ministries, urging officials to abandon their silence and actively confront what it labeled a coordinated and covert destabilization campaign orchestrated to benefit hostile foreign powers.
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