Afghanistan Turning Into Nest of Terrorists

By: Hamid Reza Naghashian

TEHRAN (Iran News) – When the Taliban took power in Afghanistan and Western forces, led by the U.S., were forced to leave this country, many analysts believed that Afghanistan would not experience peaceful future because they believed the U.S. and its allies would turn Afghanistan into the scene of clashes and terrorist acts and in recent months several bombs have been exploded in different parts of this country killing dozens of people both Sunni and Shiite.

On Friday, at least 33 Afghan people, including children, were killed and 43 others wounded after an explosion tore through a mosque in the northern city of Kunduz, in the latest in a series of deadly attacks in the war-ravaged country.

There has been no claim of responsibility for the attack yet, which followed multiple blasts claimed by the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in the country.

On Thursday, a bombing at a mosque in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif on Thursday killed at least 31 worshipers and injured more than 80, in the second major attack on the Shia Hazara community in Afghanistan in a week.

On Tuesday, two blasts outside a school in a Hazara community neighborhood of Kabul killed at least 20 people and wounded more than two dozen others.

The Hazara community, the poorest of the country’s ethnic groups, accounts for about 22 percent of Afghanistan’s population. Its members have been targeted in several large-scale kidnappings and killings across Afghanistan in the past.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh on Friday condemned the “terrorist” blast that hit the mosque in Kunduz.

Khatibzadeh pointed to the series of terrorist attacks in recent days in Afghanistan and expressed his deep concern over the escalation of violence and acts of terror in the country.

The Iranian spokesperson added that the attack on the Kunduz mosque “clearly shows the vicious intentions of foreign mercenary terrorists who seek to wage civil war in Afghanistan.”

Security in Afghanistan has vastly improved since the Taliban’s takeover of the country. However, several attacks are reported each week throughout the country, including some claimed by Daesh.

Meanwhile Iran’s Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Zahra Ershadi on Friday said that ISIS’ presence in Afghanistan has intensified terrorist attacks in the country.

Speaking at the High-Level Briefing on the National Strategy and Action Plan of Tajikistan on Countering Terrorism and Extremism 2021-2025, said that Iran condemns the recent terrorist attacks in Afghanistan and is deeply concerned about such sorrowful incidents, calling on Afghan authorities to quickly bring the perpetrators to justice.

 

She highlighted the role of foreign actors through implementing irresponsible policies, including transfer of ISIS terrorists from Iraq and Syria to Afghanistan, as a cause of intensification of security situation in the region.

The Iranian diplomat urged global and regional cooperation considering the multidimensional and extraterritorial properties of terrorism, adding that this can be realized through bilateral and multilateral agreements and international and regional organizations like Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

From the moment the western forces left Afghanistan and handed over indirectly the power to the Taliban, it was clear that the U.S. seeks ill intention in Afghanistan and it wants to use this country as a source of tension and insecurity in the region and to bring up terrorist groups there like the Daesh in order to use them against countries in due time.

Since the Taliban government is not currently an inclusive government and the rift in the country is wide open, the West can nourish such terrorist groups for its purposes. Unfortunately after several consecutive blasts in Afghanistan, there has been no reaction from the big powers and even the international bodies, and even the Taliban government has been unable to take required actions against the terrorist groups.

It seems Daesh is regrouping in Afghanistan and uses it as a haven for its existence and future plans and the world should take a collective decision to bring down Daesh terrorists in Afghanistan or any part of the world.

So far the world has been indebted to the Islamic Republic of Iran and its brave martyred General Soleimani and his comrade the current peace and curbing the Daesh, if the world wants to uproot terrorism and especially the Daesh, they should serious actions and stop finance and arming of this group.

Recent blasts in Afghanistan are not the first and will not also the last, and in the future we will see more of them because they are aimed at creating rift among Muslims and groups in the country and to show Afghan people that it was the Western forces who had been in charge of restoring peace and security in Afghanistan and with their departure, Afghans will be unable to restore their security and this doctrine has been spread by the West in most countries in order to strengthen their footstep in those states for domination over their nations and the governments.