(MENAFN- Afghanistan Times) AT News
KABUL: As the United States of American has been trying to broker
a peace deal with the Taliban group to end its longest unwinnable war in
Afghanistan, the Iranian envoy for Afghanistan, Mohammad Ibrahim Tahiryan has called
the direct negotiations between the Afghans as the only path to bring a
sustainable peace in the country. Tahiryan said this in a meeting with the Afghan
National Security Advisor Hamdullah Mohib on Sunday.
NSA Spokesman Jawid Faisal said that Iran had announced its
support to Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process. According to Faisal, the
government of Iran wants to have relation with the government of Afghanistan
not within a group.
NSA Mohib told the Iranian delegation that Afghanistan has
an independent relation with Iran and same expectation is imply to Iran.
Afghan government harped Iranian government last year when Tehran
received a delegation of Taliban after President Donald Trump called off peace
talks with the group following a suicide attack claimed by the group that
killed at least 11 innocent Afghans including an American soldier.
Some political experts believe that recent US-Iran flare-up
had put a negative impact on the Afghan peace process, citing Tehran's
influence on the Taliban.
The US Special Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay
Khalilzad arrived in Kabul on Saturday to brief the Afghan officials about the
progress that have been made between US diplomats and Taliban Qatar-Based
Political Office.
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