[PRESSTV] Iran’s top security official has confirmed that the country has been holding talks with the Afghan Taliban...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
in coordination with Kabul to help relieve rampant insecurity in Afghanistan.
"The series of contacts and talks with the Taliban group have taken place with the knowledge of the Afghan government," Ali Shamkhani, the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), said on Wednesday. "That trend will continue."
Shamkhani made the announcement during a one-day visit to Afghanistan at the invitation of Hamdullah Mohib, the Afghan president’s national security adviser.
Addressing the Geneva Conference on Afghanistan on November 28, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on the international community to facilitate "inclusive" dialog between the Afghan Taliban and the Afghan government in a bid to restore peace to the war-torn country.