Iranians please explain. You just threw in the name of an Islamic country you dont like for the sake of it. Iranians and Saudis hate eachother down sectarian lines. Iran is predominantly Shia and Saudi Arabia Sunni. The vast majority of combatants and attacks in Afghanistan are Sunni. Iran does not get involved, in fact they have been of great assistance to America in the region when they have been listened to. The only Iranian combatants in the region was the Iranian Army advisors helping the Northern Alliance pre invasion
I did just throw in Iranians for the sake of it, not because I don't like em, they just happened to be convenient. Feel free to select almost any Islamic country and their "Natives" will be there in Afghanistan.
Show me their presence in Afghanistan and not some mumbling American statement about them helping Al Qaeda, even though they hate eachother
Taliban tourists on combat holidays from their European homes are extremely rare in Afghanistan, Afghan and Nato sources claim. According to a senior officer at the national directorate of security, Afghanistan's equivalent of MI5, foreign fighters tend to be Arabs, Chechens, Pakistanis or from central Asia's former Soviet republics, such as Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. However, occasionally there are rumours of British and other European citizens going to the battlefields of Afghanistan to fight Nato forces. Typically, very little is known about these characters. "We recently heard about a German Talib in Chardara," said Safraz, a journalist working in Kunduz province, north Afghanistan. But apart from the man's nationality nothing else was known about him. Jonathan Evans, director general of the British security service, MI5, has warned that some British Muslims do travel to Afghanistan and Pakistan each year to train with extremist groups. Last year it was reported that RAF spy planes in Helmand, southern Afghanistan, had detected strong Yorkshire and Birmingham accents from fighters using radios and telephones. The fighters apparently spoke the main Afghan languages of Dari and Pashtu but lapsed into English when they were lost for the correct words. The threat was thought sufficiently serious for spy planes to have been given the task of patrolling British skies in the hope of picking up the same voice signatures of the fighters once they had returned to the UK. The dead body of an insurgent who had an Aston Villa tattoo was also discovered in southern Afghanistan. But the British military spokesman for Task Force Helmand said that there have been no recent reports of British Taliban members in the province and that the overwhelming majority of foreign fighters were Pakistanis. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/24/afghanistan-foreign-fighters
Did you not see my when I said I threw them in for fun because they were "Convenient"? However: An Iranian citizen is one of two suspects arrested in Southern Afghanistan and charged with attempting a suicide attack. http://www.radiozamaneh.com/english/content/afghan-officials-arrest-iranian-security-charges Abdolvahed Hakimi, a Fars News Agency reporter, has been arrested in Afghanistan on a charge of "exposing a secret government document to Iran. "http://www.payvand.com/news/12/may/1071.html Looks like I was right.
Exceptional bit of google trawling there Dev. I see arrests but no convictions or trials. I cant open the links on my android app for some reason so cant really read what the full jist of the articles is. But if they are insinuating sanctioned Iranian involvement in the conflict it is shameless propaganda. There really is no love lost between the Taleban/Al Qaeda and Iran mostly down religious and theological lines. Maybe they were Sunni Iranians
I did'nt have to Google much, just Iranians arrested in Afghanistan and I got two stories right away. There are Iranians in Afghanistan Jacky, Innocent until proven otherwise and all that, but they are suspected of being up to no good. When they have been cleared we will continue this debate.
