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Afghanistan
Decoding the Taliban’s Anti-Persianism
2023-08-15
[TheDiplomat] The Taliban
...Arabic for students...
’s anti-Persian stance is rooted in their educational and cultural background, but also reflects a longstanding desire by successive Afghan governments to displace the Persian language.

Recently, the Taliban’s deputy minister of information and culture made headlines when he asserted that "Afghanistan does not need Persian literature." Sputnik Afghanistan reported that when addressing a group of graduate students at the Gulghulah Hotel in Bamiyan
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