{"id":293456,"date":"2026-02-16T02:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/293456\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T02:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:49:08","slug":"taliban-warns-it-may-aid-iran-if-conflict-with-us-erupts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/293456\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban warns it may aid Iran if conflict with US erupts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Taliban<\/a> will aid and assist the Islamic Republic of Iran<\/a> in the event of US strikes on the country, the group’s spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid told Radio Iran’s Pashto-language service on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Afghanistan’s people would show sympathy and possibly cooperate with Iran if requested, Mujahid\u00a0clarified, noting that this would not automatically pull the Sunni group into joining a retaliatory war against the US.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the Taliban’s message is that they do not want conflict between the US and Iran, and would prefer to pursue diplomatic measures and continued negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program.<\/p>\n

Further, Iran “won”<\/a> the 12-day war with Israel and the US in June, Mujahid affirmed, and will “win again” if the US attacks.<\/p>\n

Iran will be able to “win again” as it “has the capability, is in the right, and has the right to defend itself,” he stated.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe head of the Taliban government, Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Kabul, Afghanistan January 26, 2025. (credit: IRANIAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS\/WANA (WEST ASIA NEWS AGENCY)\/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS)<\/p>\n

The Taliban, at the time, condemned Israel’s strikes on the Islamic Regime’s nuclear<\/a> enrichment facilities, military leadership, and other strategic locations.<\/p>\n

Iran, Taliban relations remain tense due to Shia-Sunni split<\/p>\n

Tensions have existed between the respective Islamic Regimes of Iran and Afghanistan, largely following fault lines splitting Shia and Sunni, with Iran following Twelver Shia and the Taliban following a militant form of Sunnism.<\/p>\n

However, the two governments have cooperated since the Taliban reclaimed leadership over the country.<\/p>\n

In January 2025, the Taliban’s Foreign Minister, Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi, hosted a delegation in Kabul<\/a> led by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to discuss multiple issues, including water resources, Afghan migrants, and security of the shared borders.<\/p>\n

Araghchi also met with the head of the Taliban government, Mohammad Hassan Akhund, during his visit.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Iran has hosted several million Afghan refugees<\/a> who fled over the past 25 years, particularly since the Taliban regained control in August 2021.<\/p>\n

Some of these were accused of being Israeli spies<\/a>, with Tehran alleging that they aided Mossad in gathering information for the Israeli operations in June.<\/p>\n

Reuters contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Taliban will aid and assist the Islamic Republic of Iran in the event of US strikes on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8644,42,87,92,79845,55,15005,23078,43,143725,149004,19225,3336,40,38,41,39,33578,128708],"class_list":{"0":"post-293456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-afghanistan","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-iran-nuclear","12":"tag-islamic-regime","13":"tag-islamic-republic","14":"tag-israel-iran-war","15":"tag-kabul","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-sunni","18":"tag-sunni-shiite","19":"tag-taliban","20":"tag-tehran","21":"tag-top-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topnews","24":"tag-topstories","25":"tag-will-israel-attack-iran","26":"tag-will-us-attack-iran"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}