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Iran has been holding talks with Afghanistan’s Taliban with the knowledge of the Afghan government, a senior Iranian security official was quoted by the official news agency IRNA as saying on Wednesday during a visit to Kabul.
The news came days after reports last week of talks between U.S. and Taliban officials over proposals for a ceasefire in Afghanistan and a future withdrawal of foreign troops ahead of possible peace negotiations.
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Talks between Iran and the Taliban were held “to help curb the security problems in Afghanistan,” Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, was quoted by IRNA as saying.
“All contacts and talks with the Taliban group have been with the knowledge of Afghanistan’s government and this process will continue,” he said. He gave no further details.
Majority-Shi’ite Iran has long had close ties to Shi’ites in neighbouring Afghanistan whose militias have fought the Taliban’s Sunni militants.
But in recent months Afghan officials have accused Tehran, which the United States says is trying to extend its influence in western Afghanistan, of providing the Taliban with money, weapons and explosives. Iran denies that.
Earlier this month, Afghan forces abandoned a remote western district bordering Iran, leaving the area to the Taliban after the government failed to resupply troops stationed there.
In November, the United States displayed pieces of what it said were Iranian weapons supplied to militants in Yemen and Afghanistan, a move by Washington to pressure Tehran to curb its regional activities. Iran denies supplying arms to the militants.
In October, the United States accused Iran of providing military training, financing and weapons to the Taliban and targeted sanctions against eight individuals, including two linked to the Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. Tehran denies the accusations.
44 Comments on "Iran in talks with Afghan Taliban"
wildbourgman on Wed, 26th Dec 2018 8:00 am
This is why we need to pull out of the middle east. Someone needs to win and be the middle eastern superpower so we know who we are talking to. Our nuclear deterrent would work once again as it did in the cold war if we had someone in control.
Think about it, would the USSR knowingly allow one of its puppet states to perform a 9/11 styled attack when they had power? No!
So I say let them fight it out and have someone win regardless of who our supposed allies are in the region. Then once we have a victor we let them know we don’t care it we are attacked by a Sunni militant group within your Shia majority of vice versa, if they come from territory you control you are guilty end of story.
Having to deal with all of these factions like we should even care is ridiculous and pointless.
Cloggie on Wed, 26th Dec 2018 10:43 am
Note that Iran is majority Shiite, Taliban Sunni:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban
The events in Iraq have caused the Sunni-Shiite divide to be exaggerated. Just like majority Protestant Germany and majority Catholic France could setup the EU, likewise Sunni Turkey and Shiite Iran can be expected to setup a similar construct for the Muslim world after the end of the era of European & American colonialism.
Apparently Iran is already busy preparing to fill in the immanent power vacuum, after the West retreats.
Expect Iran and Turkey to take over KSA.
Then once we have a victor we let them know we don’t care it we are attacked by a Sunni militant group within your Shia majority of vice versa
You were “attacked” (false flag) by the Mossad and CIA, not stupid Muslims. Even our forum neocon “I AM THE FLOP” admits that.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/ex-italian-president-intel-agencies-know-9-11-an-inside-job/7550
wildbourgman on Wed, 26th Dec 2018 10:55 am
“You were “attacked” (false flag) by the Mossad and CIA, not stupid Muslims. Even our forum neocon “I AM THE FLOP” admits that”
I’m not against a nice conspiracy theory every now and again, but whether or not other deepstate powers like it (Mossad/ CIA/ MI-6 Etc.) I do not want to be in the middle of this conflagration.
I don’t see it as a power vacuum that we need to fill, that’s all I’m saying. Let someone win (other than us)and we deal with them rather than trying to find a spot for every peace of this screwed up jig saw puzzle.
Cloggie on Fri, 28th Dec 2018 6:29 pm
Everybody in the Middle East loves Assad again:
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/syrien-die-arabischen-herrscher-machen-ihren-frieden-mit-baschar-al-assad-a-1245679.html
Camel jockeys, a bunch of spineless, characterless, followers of power. If the US attempts to destroy the Assad regime, they all follow the Great Satan. If the US backs off, everything is honkey-dory again with Assad.
Assad is probably the only real leader in the Middle-East, worthy of that name.
The heroes that destroyed the oligarch NWO and mean reason why our Mobster went ballistic:
https://ibb.co/Phvrc4X
Backup from white nationalist days (just testing):
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2014/08/27/isis-100000-and-counting/nwo-insurgents/
I AM THE MOB on Fri, 28th Dec 2018 7:57 pm
Get Ready for Europe’s Next Crisis -Barrons
For much of the past decade, the euro area has been an anchor dragging down the global economy. It is in danger of being so again.
The European Central Bank, the European Commission, and European politicians have repeatedly made destructive choices at the expense of Europeans and the rest of the world ever since the first rumblings of the financial crisis. The consequences have been catastrophic unemployment, especially among the young; rising poverty; and—perversely, given their stated objectives—government debt burdens that are increasingly difficult to sustain.
Now, the brief and overhyped “euroboom” of 2017 has completely faded. The latest official data show the euro area growing at the slowest annual rate in more than four years. Real gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of just 1.2% in the first nine months of 2018. The bloc grew 2.7% in 2017, 2.1% in 2016, 2% in 2015, and 1.6% in 2014.
It would be easy, but wrong, to attribute the slowdown to temporary idiosyncratic factors. Italy’s borrowing costs have been elevated since May, for example, while German vehicle exports were temporarily hit by the introduction of new pollution standards for diesel engines. In fact, the slowdown is broad-based across all of the biggest economies—Germany, France, Italy, and Spain—which together account for roughly three-quarters of the bloc’s output. (The hit to the French economy from the recent “yellow vest” protests won’t show up in the GDP data until the fourth-quarter numbers are published next spring.)
Worst of all, Europe’s slowdown is being driven by a steady and grinding reduction in the growth rate of private consumption, rather than some temporary volatility in investment spending or the trade balance. French consumer spending is growing at its slowest rate since the beginning of 2013. Italian consumption has flatlined and is in danger of shrinking outright. The deceleration of private spending is most extreme in Germany, with consumption growing at its slowest pace since the financial crisis. Spain is the strongest of the big four economies, but it, too, has experienced a notable slowdown relative to its average since 2014.
Consumption is ultimately what makes business investments profitable, so if European consumers keep cutting back, European businesses will either have to sell more abroad as exports or cut investment. Either choice would be bad news for the rest of the world. Producers elsewhere would lose out if global consumers were forced to absorb the glut of excess European production, while investment cuts would reduce European demand for imports.
Recent surveys of European businesses suggest the situation is only getting worse. IHS Markit reported that “backlogs of work fell for the first time in almost four years” in December as businesses adapted to “the reduced inflow of new business.” Focusing on Germany, Markit’s survey found that business “optimism was the lowest recorded for over four years,” marking a “stark contrast from the situation this time last year.” In France, Markit’s “latest flash data pointed to an outright contraction in France’s private sector for the first time in 2½ years.” In Italy, “output fell at the fastest pace in 67 months.” Spain is a relative bright spot in terms of actual orders and activity, but even there, “business expectations were at their lowest level since June 2013.”
Other macro data suggest that the danger for Europe is more likely recession than overheating. Consumer prices excluding food, energy, alcohol, and tobacco have consistently been growing just 1% each year for the past six years. There has been no upward trend, despite the ECB’s previous commitment to restore inflation to its target of “below, but close to, 2%” and its subsequent asset-purchase program. Moreover, unemployment remains crushingly high across much of the bloc. (The major exception is Germany, but even there, the official jobless rate is depressed by millions of low-paid part-time workers.)
These are the kinds of conditions that normally make policy makers cautious about inadvertently pushing their economy into recession. Europe’s incomplete monetary union makes it especially fragile, and for all of the reforms made since 2011, the integrity of the common currency has not been tested by a broad-based downturn.
Yet the ECB seems convinced that its job is done. At its most recent meeting on Dec. 13, the central bank confirmed that it would stop adding to its bond portfolio by the end of the month. The next step would be to start raising interest rates, perhaps as soon as next summer.
Admittedly, the ECB has not committed to tighten on a fixed schedule and ECB President Mario Draghi emphasized in the postmeeting news conference that officials chose to “keep optionality as a dominant feature” of their policy stance. According to him, their future choices will depend “on the situation of the economy” rather than arbitrary concerns about the calendar or the size of the balance sheet.
The problem is that Draghi will be retiring next year. In the worst-case scenario, he would be replaced by someone as incompetent as his predecessor, Jean-Claude Trichet, as part of some grand compromise to appease politicians in Northern Europe. The likelier outcome is that Draghi’s replacement would have sound economic judgment, but lack the Italian’s skills at getting what he wants out of a diverse group of independent-minded officials. With Europe’s economy slowing down, this is a risk to watch.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/europe-economic-crisis-is-coming-51545951011
Cloggie on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 1:15 am
Have you been googling again in search for conclusions you like, TalmudTurk?
Cloggie on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 2:13 am
The ARD, the “German BBC”, is certain: both Merkel and Macron are weakened. Bring in the Dutch to lead Europe and halt the rise of the European Right:
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/rutte-139.html
PM Rutte for some time now, has the ambition to replace the British after their departure from the EU as the third in the European pecking order. He has always been very much pro-EU and it looks he is going to be rewarded with the presidency.
Davy on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 4:57 am
“Everybody in the Middle East loves Assad again:”
Neder, they love the idea of getting in on the spoils of rebuilding a destroyed country that Russia and China will bank role at least as long as they can with both economies hurting. We see China and Russia’s success in Venezuela another destroyed country. Assad Syria is no longer a power but still a place at the crossroads of the ME. This makes him important nothing more
Davy on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 5:19 am
“Get Ready for Europe’s Next Crisis -Barrons”
“https://www.barrons.com/articles/europe-economic-crisis-is-coming-51545951011”
Neder, MOB has a point, where is the Euro golden decade you have been panting about for years now? Your Euroland is in a sociopolitical civil war and economic decline. Your demographic situation is awful. Your familiar “Tic toc” in this case is your time is running out as you are flushed into a decline you will never rise out of.
Davy on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 5:26 am
“The ARD, the “German BBC”, is certain: both Merkel and Macron are weakened. Bring in the Dutch to lead Europe and halt the rise of the European Right”
The Euro right is not a force to overcome the left. You are dreaming neder. The left and right will be locked in paralysis just like in the US. The Dutch will never lead Euroland because they don’t have the population or the economic clout. More allusions of grandeur out of a nederlander obsessed with empire.
Cloggie on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 5:30 am
I was citing the ARD and their pushing of Rutte as the next EU president, nothing more, delussionalist,
Davy on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 5:53 am
“delussionalist”
JuanP is up and back at it. LOL. Come on JuanP, try harder to imitate cloggie.
Davy on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 6:34 am
Humper-Pumper Number Nine.
Pump-up the volume, pump-up the volume, dance, dance.
Davy on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 6:38 am
Brothers and sisters, pump-up the volume, pump-up the volume, dance, dance.
I love listening to this song when my ebony twink is painting my toenails.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9gOQgfPW4Y
Davy on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 6:47 am
You know you have won the debate when the identity theft starts.
Cloggie on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 8:00 am
Neder, MOB has a point, where is the Euro golden decade you have been panting about for years now?
Almost already behind us.
Your Euroland is in a sociopolitical civil war and economic decline.
There is no “civil war” in Europe, not even in the US, not yet. Here the US alt-right last night, discussing the prospect of CW2 in the US:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXFseDMb-sw
Richard Spencer is skeptical, the others can’t wait.
Your demographic situation is awful.
Not nearly as bad as yours. PBM has 3 times as many whites as you do and far less invaders per capita. And far more “identitarian reserves” than notorious globalist “nation of immigrants” like you. It’s you who is near the abyss, not us. It is only a matter of time until we can take you over, em… make that liberate you.
Your familiar “Tic toc” in this case is your time is running out as you are flushed into a decline you will never rise out of.
Still in love with doom, eh, because it is so easy. You love easy. You don’t have to fight for anything, because fighting is so tiresome. You are mentally so defeatist, so BMI-35!
Cloggie on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 8:03 am
JuanP is up and back at it. LOL. Come on JuanP, try harder to imitate cloggie.
I’m sorry davy, but it was me. Could not remember another insult so fast than this one.
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2018/12/29/european-wind-industry-energy-scenarios-for-2030/
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2018/12/29/pv-solar-global-installed-base/
JuanP on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 8:12 am
It looks like the Exceptionalist didn’t like what Cloggie had to say. What a surprise! ROFLMFAO! USA! USA! USA!
Davy on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 8:44 am
Sounded like the asswipe JuanP the board prick, neder but yes it could have been easily you considering you are only marginally better. At least you contribute the asswipe has not contributed in months
More Davy Personal Attacks on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 12:15 pm
“Sounded like the asswipe JuanP the board prick, neder but yes it could have been easily you considering you are only marginally better.”
We all know that Davy always resorts to personal attacks when he loses an argument.
Davy Delusion on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 12:50 pm
“You know you have won the debate when the identity theft starts.”
We all know that Davy is delusional.
makati1 on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 2:20 pm
Asshole JuanP said this:
Davy Delusion on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 12:50 pm
We all know that Davy is delusional.
More Davy Identity Theft on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 2:31 pm
makati1 on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 2:20 pm
Davy Quote on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 2:32 pm
“You know you have won the debate when the identity theft starts.”
JuanP on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 2:37 pm
this is me:
More Davy Identity Theft on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 2:31 pm makati1 on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 2:20 pm Davy Quote on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 2:32 pm “You know you have won the debate when the identity theft starts.”
Boney Joe on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 2:38 pm
juanP give it a rest with the identity theft
The truth will set you free on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 2:39 pm
No it was me
spoonman on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 2:39 pm
come on guys it was me
JuanP on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 2:40 pm
I am spoonman, truth with set you free, boney joe, mike hunt, sunspot, and lol
JuanP on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 2:41 pm
I have multiple personalities and can be who i want to be when I want to be
makati1 on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 2:42 pm
You are mostly a slut, juanP
More Davy Identity Theft on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 2:44 pm
JuanP on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 2:37 pm
Boney Joe on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 2:38 pm
The truth will set you free on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 2:39 pm
JuanP on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 2:41 pm
makati1 on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 2:42 pm
More Davy Vagina and Penis Obsessions on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 2:45 pm
“You are mostly a slut”
makati1 on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 3:13 pm
JuanP, stop this childish behavior. Don’t you have a garden to water?
Anonymouse on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 3:16 pm
mak, we both know juanP has gone off the deep end. He is now the official sock suck. We both know he has ruined this forum.
makati1 on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 3:18 pm
anon, I like so much you are here to help me when our space becomes infected with assholes like JuanP.
JuanP on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 3:19 pm
Delusional Davy “Sounded like the asswipe JuanP the board prick, neder but yes it could have been easily you considering you are only marginally better. At least you contribute the asswipe has not contributed in months.”
ROFLMFAO! I think that was the real Exceptionalist.
I want to thank the person filling in for me when I can’t be here. I expect to be busier than usual for a few months. Keep up the good work! LOL!
More Davy Identity Theft on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 3:19 pm
makati1 on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 3:13 pm
Anonymouse on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 3:16 pm
makati1 on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 3:18 pm
JuanP on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 3:20 pm
It is office everyone hates me because I am a FTD, a forum transmitted disease.
makati1 on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 3:22 pm
“I want to thank the person filling in for me when I can’t be here. I expect to be busier than usual for a few months. Keep up the good work! LOL!”
I hope you are gone for good juan Prick
Anonymouse on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 3:27 pm
JuanP on Sat Dec 28018 2:40
Another fake post, made by: Delusional Davyturd
Serial sock-puppet, mentally unbalanced shut-in, and all around douche-bag.
Davy is also, Admin, I AM THE MOB,(amoung others) and regularly makes fakes posts as Mak and Juan.
You’re welcome , dumbass.
JuanP identity theft on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 3:34 pm
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makati1 on Sat, 29th Dec 2018 3:22 pm
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